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Paper topic: Examine the role of gift exchange in interactions between Europeans (not just the English) and Indians and describe how gift exchanges changed over time. Did both parties to exchanges have the same understanding in the earlier period? In the late period? Did either parties understand change over time?

Thousand of years before the Europeans found North America; it was the Indians who settled the land. When the Europeans came they brought all sorts of germs, viruses and even diseases that were unknown to the Indians. Due to the fact that Indians traded more among themselves they affected their population because the germs had spread more. Trading became gift exchanges amongst the Indians and Europeans to make it a friendlier act. Indians and Europeans were sharing food and knowledge with each other in the beginning. In 1609, they were trading corn for goods, but there was hostility starting to grow between them.
Europeans wanted to trade guns, alcohol, woolen......

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