King Philip's Herds Summary

Compared to Europeans, Indians had a lot more, which the settlers were not used to,because the landscape in England was restricted for landowners. Heavy forests covered New England, which was also unusual to the settlers, England had cut down all of its wood for fuel. European settlers were amazed by the lack of domestic animals, which was very common in European agriculture. The European settlers and the Indians had different ways of how they live and different opinions on how they should use the land around them. Cronon expresses, “Many European visitors were struck by what seemed to them the poverty of Indians who lived in the midst of a landscape endowed so astonishingly with abundance” (Cronon 33).

4) The spread of diseases like small pox via the interaction between Europeans and Amerindians was essential in European conquest of the western hemisphere because it led to changed social, economic, and political relations in Europe and also created diversity and new cultures. 5) Positive impacts of the Columbian Exchange on Europe, the Americas, and Africa was the spread of domesticated livestock and major agricultural crops of the Old World into the Americas, and the staple crops of the New World that enriched and benefited the agriculture. 6) The negative impacts caused by the Columbian Exchange on Europe, the Americas, and Africa was mainly the transfer of plants and animals. Due to the Old World livestock spreading quickly and rapidly, environmental changes were dramatic, which caused a destructive impact of livestock on Amerindian agriculturists. 7) The horse had the greatest impact on the cultures of the Native Americans because they helped to increase the efficiency of hunters, as well as the military capacity of warriors on the plains.

After the French and Indian war, there were a lot of problems that lead to the undoing of Britain’s hold over the colonies. Among many other reasons, one big problem the colonists had with Britain after the war was the fact that they kept good relations with the Indians. This angered many colonists because of the atrocities done to them by the Indians. These relations ended up leading to many conflicts including Pontiacs Rebellion and the Paxton boys’ retaliation. The three major reasons the British Empire started to disintegrate after the war though were: The problem of paying the massive debt of the war, the peace treaty and the argument of whether to purse French possession in the Caribbean or Canada, and how to administer new lands gained

The Industrial Revolution brought down the prices of crops produced by farmers, this meant that farmers were not making enough money to pay off their debts. This increasing problem was slowly digging farmers into a hole with what seemed to be no escape. To add on to their everlasting money problems, middlemen and railroad companies were price gouging the farmers. This meant, the companies were asking farmers to pay prices which had been far higher than the actual value of the products needed for the farmers to raise crops. Companies did this, because they knew that farmers could not buy their goods from other businesses due to the fact that there were not any others in sight.

Settlers in the 18th century American frontier would at times resort to violent protests to express their political and social distress as a result, political, social, and economic reform followed. America had varying political and social opinions in relation to individual groups and peoples within society. The individuals and groups, at times, would have differing opinions than what was legislated or believed overall as a country. The dissent of opinions and ideas lead to acts of aggression against established laws and ordinance. The March of the Paxton Boys took place due to the grievances of political policy regarding Native Americans.

Slaves began to outweigh the number of indentured servants due to the Slave Codes which made the slaves and their descendants property rather than people and lack of opportunities for indentured servants. The economy of the New England and Chesapeake colonies were different due to the climate of each colonies which either led to a reliance on industry or agriculture. The religion of each colony was also impacted the economy, of whether of not they used slavery, and was a major difference in

That made the cattle nervous and afraid. And when they get nervous and afraid, that made them jump into the water, which could possibly make the cattle drown, losing money for the farm. What Dr. Grandin accomplished, has helped the agricultural community immensely. The agriculture community, because of Grandin 's design, has made more money from not losing cattle to drowning, and has influenced other farmers to do the

This greatly affected the Congress’s way of communication to the colonialists. Many colonies did not believe but instead tried to take down

Throughout the novel, Antonio struggles with his identity due to his parent’s clashing background. As he began to unveil the different aspects of his parent’s culture, he gains an overwhelming amount of knowledge that causes inner conflict. Due to his identity crisis, Antonio begins to learn unnecessary amount of cultures and religions in hope for an answer. Ironically, Antonio gains more layers to his inner conflict as he is introduced to the idea of disagreeing cultures instead of a solution. In addition, Antonio becomes prone to nightmares relating to the negativity of each religion, causing him to further question the religion's taboo subject.

Illustrating his point,  that their is a misguided viewpoint on farming,  and being farmers. Continuously commenting back to how people believe that level of narrowness, "requires the agency of a supra-natural." just to do a simpler work of a farmer. This is a misconception on the opinions of farmers. Mainly in page 38, He focuses some statistics to back up his opinions of our farming “crisis”, adding structure to what otherwise might have been a purely emotional argument.