History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0335 short lesson, about 20 seconds
European Goods and Native Adaptation
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The idea
Early trade goods were glass beads, copper kettles and metal utensils, and Native peoples adapted them, cutting copper kettles into status-conferring jewellery linking the wearer to European sources.
In practice
Iron awls producing an astonishing increase in the production of wampum.
Where people slip
By the sixteen hundreds textiles replaced animal-skin clothing and metal displaced clay cookware.
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