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As you’ve been learning in your course materials, indigenous cultures were tremendously diverse

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As you’ve been learning in your course materials, indigenous cultures were tremendously diverse. In part as a measure of that diversity, Native Americans’ encounters with European explorers varied in a wide range of ways.

Consider what you’ve read so far and then review the following resources:

• Native American Diversity
• Prehistoric Pictographs
• The Impact of the Columbian Exchange on "Old" and "New" Worlds
• Smallpox
• Columbian Exchange and the Spanish Empire in North America

How does this material impact your views on early American history? What were the major ways in which Native Americans and the Europeans they encountered were affected by these interactions?   3 to 6 sentences