american colonies the settling of north america alan taylor

This chapter establishes the link between the European dominance during the colonial era and the New World. Unfortunately, the New World replaced harmony as population pressure created imbalances in the holistic environment. The colonizers introduced the Islamic and Christianity religions that further cemented their dominance among the native since incentives such as medicine made the Native American Indians to tow the line. According to Taylor, this explained their dominance in the western parts of America. Upon discovery of America, expansion of the European control was influenced by geographical and population multiplication. These factors conspired to establish dominance of the colonizers in America Adapting descriptive narration, Taylor succeeds in relating the influence of colonizers on the natives of America.

This chapter explores European expansion, major religions, slavery and renaissance science in the development of the American culture. The author has explicitly related different primitive cultures of the Native Americans and their interaction with other ethnic groups. This chapter is successful in placing the migration period among the Native Americans. Taylor observed that migration negatively affected the pre-Colombian culture since the Hohokam and Anasazi cultures were manipulated by the Europeans. Europeans encountered these groups that had stabilized horticulture, hunting, and family units. This society had structured roles for each gender and man had the overall responsibility of family wellbeing.Īmong the other natives include the Inuit and Aleut. Taylor traces the migration route in the Paleo and Archaic America as dominated by Indians who used crude weapons and lived in units in the expansive west America region. Taylor succeeds in identifying migration patterns of different ethnic groups across the American territory before colonial invasion. Taylor identifies American natives as the Indians, Inuit and Aleut who introduced cultures such as anasazi and hohokam that modified the primitive practices into societal activities.

This chapter discusses the natives that shaped the culture of the American colony. Thus, this reflective treatise attempts to present explicit summary of the thoughts of Alan Taylor from chapter one to chapter seven in the book “American Colonies”. The book “American Colonies” by Alan Taylor offers an opposing view to the Anglo-centric focal point through explicit review of the numerous cultural influences that created the American colony.

American colonies the settling of north america alan taylor