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=Contact and Colonisation in North America =

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__What is Colonisation?__
====North and South America had been occupied for at least 15, 000 years before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Columbus did not even know that the Americas existed. He though that ghe had landed near Indonesia, which was known in those days as the East Indies. Because of this, Columbus called the indigenous people he encountered 'Indians'. By the time his mistake was realised, the name had taken hold and was falsely applied to hundreds of different nations, speaking over 200 different languages. The coming of the Europeans was to have a disasterous effect on their way of life. ====

//(Retroactive 1, Second Edition, 2005. John Wiley and Sons, Australia. Pp 288)//

**__Map of North America__**


**__Task__**: list the different tribes in the map shown going from the closest to the equator to the furthest.

__Definitions__
__Genocide:__ The deliberate killing of a race of people. __Immunity:__ Resistance to diseases.

__Documentary__
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