Discuss FOUR (4) impacts of European presence in the New World
(8 marks)

The spread of Catholicism, the economy, the adoption of new cultures, technological achievements.

Explanation:

With Europeans' arrival on the soil of the New World, there was a "collision" of two different cultures and life perceptions. Europeans and Native Americans exchanged certain experiences with each other. The spread of short-sightedness among the North American Indians did not go planned; most remained committed to old dogmatic beliefs. Yet one part assimilated in this context. And if it became a certain commodity substitute on New World soil before the Europeans' arrival, the natives took certain economic patterns from Europe. So that they are actively involved in trade flows brought from Europe. Europeans introduced the natives to new plant and animal species such as horses, cows, pigs, and vines, wheat, and alcohol. Technologically superior Europeans introduced the Indians to new methods of cultivating the land, and the Indians also began to use firearms to some extent.

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"the land of the dead"