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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by treaties the tastiest form of diplomacy

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All right have a look See if this excerpt as

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in all part mother island mainland I'm famous trade and

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mother of pearl and the question major misunderstanding on the

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part of european explorers such as the admiral from the

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excerpt was their assumption that what and hear your potential

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answers So what's his question asking We know the europeans

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made all kinds of bonehead decisions when exploring and settling

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the new world they enslaved people took land that wasn't

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theirs transmitted diseases that ended up wiping out ninety percent

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of well you know what Why even get into it

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We just need to figure out which of the answers

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was something the europeans assumed that ended up not being

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true Sort of like we all assumed that lost would

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have a satisfying ending So we're europeans wrong in believing

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that be american indians had complex social and economic systems

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Nope The american indians had intricate civic society's functioning economies

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and strong political relations with tribes living nearby Of course

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it took the europeans a little while to figure this

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out They weren't the sharpest tools and they look different

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but can still be civilized Shit Arts let's nix that

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one What about the assumption that see the caribbean environment

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was capable of supporting plantation agriculture Well that seems right

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on the money The caribbean's warm weather system supported huge

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agricultural endeavours especially for sugar in tobacco And given the

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european taste for candy cigarettes and ruining other people's lives

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like colonised quickly exploited the land generating boatloads of cash

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for their host countries so we can cross out both

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see andy from our list That leaves only a the

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leadership structures of native tribes mirrored those of europe hands

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there it is Even though europeans were continually fighting they

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had one basic thing in common They were mostly christian

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and ruled over by a monarch so apples and very

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similar apples When they got to the new world explorers

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assumed that native americans would be the same but those

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native americans were more decentralized and europeans meaning that no

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one person made all the decisions total like those communities

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where everyone needs to agree on what kind of biodegradable

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shampoo do you use But there was one big problem

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because europeans assumed that one person made decisions for everyone

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else All those trade negotiations and peace treaties got messy

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to say the least so we can assume that a

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czar answer and we all know what happens when you

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assume you end up decimating an entire indigenous population Nice 00:02:43.073 --> [endTime] job guys

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