Dbq Native Americans

There were many factors that made Native Americans vulnerable to conquest by European adventures in the sixteenth century. The Native Americans were inferior to the European conquerors through social, economical, political and military points of view.

Native Americans lacked political unity, for example, Aztecs had many enemies from within their own tribes. The tribes were frequently in conflict with one another as they competed for territory, and wealth, and food. In contrast to the Native American’s lack of unity, the European explorers were a highly unified society.

Native Americans did not have immunity and were not exposed to European diseases, such as tuberculosis and smallpox and millions were killed this way. Therefore, when Europeans