Impact of Europeans on Native Americans
I can explain the impact of the expansion of European empires on Native Americans.
Impact of Europeans on Native Americans
I can explain the impact of the expansion of European empires on Native Americans.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- European colonisation of the Americas had a range of devastating impacts.
- Europeans used religion to dispossess Native Americans and to change their culture.
- Conflict and disease had devastating impacts on Native American peoples.
- European colonisation involved exploitation of Native American peoples.
Common misconception
Europeans conquered the Americas easily because they had better weapons and technology
European diseases killed and weakened many Native Americans, undermining indigenous resistance to European conquest.
Keywords
Devastation - devastation refers to great destruction or damage
Native American - Native Americans are members of any of the peoples who were the original inhabitants of North and South America and the Caribbean Islands
Dispossess - to dispossess someone is to take their land away
Exploitation - treating people unfairly or cruelly for your own benefit is called exploitation
Content guidance
- Contains depictions of discriminatory behaviour.
- Contains subject matter which individuals may find upsetting.
- Contains conflict or violence.
Supervision
Adult supervision suggested.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
the process of taking control over another country
taking an area of land by force
to change someone's beliefs