Reference no: EM133455968

Part 1

Read the following definitions and then answer the questions below.

-Assimilation: to absorb into another cultural tradition

-Passive resistance: to appear to submit to, accommodate to or assimilate into the invading culture, while actually resisting

-Defensive resistance: To defend one's own family, land, or possessions against invasion or attack

-Aggressive resistance: to resist invasion by attacking the invader

-Retaliation: to inflict harm or injury in return for a wrong, to take revenge, or exact retribution

-Accommodation: to adjust to some of the ways of the other invading culture, often as a concession in order to achieve more important or long range goals

-Collaboration: to cooperate with the invading force occupying one's own country

-Negotiation: to confer with those of the invading culture so as to arrive at a settlement of some matter

-Biculturalism: to function successfully within the culture of the conquering culture as well as maintaining identity with one's own traditional culture. Acceptance of the validity of both cultures.

Using the definitions above, determine which category or categories best fit the definition for the three following events. Write 2-4 aentences explaining why you selected the definition you did. (Each question is worth five points)

Taino Resistance

Pueblo Revolt

Powhatan Confederacy

Part 2

Write the responses to the following questions.

What is the difference between the word "discover" and the word "invade?" How do these words apply the Spanish in the new world and the Native American people they found there?

What was the catalyst for the pan-Indian activism movement? Why did it make sense for Native American tribes to work together to attain their goals?

Who was Bartelome de las Casas, and what did he do to help the Native American people in the Caribbean?