Indians once said: Europeans are short, ugly, smelly and retarded.

This is an embarrassing history. You must have no idea how much the Indians despised the colonists. Those Europeans said: there is no refutation.

1523, the Italian explorer giovanni da verrazzano arrived at the east coast of North America on the "Carolina", and the sight there shocked all the crew.

Even now, many people believe that before Europeans arrived in America, this continent was still a wilderness, and only a few Indians lived in the debris. And many people think that the Indians at this time are still in a rather primitive and backward era.

However, the crew of the Carolina saw that most of the east coast of North America was Indian. Before Wei razzano got close to the coast, he smelled the smell of Indian bonfires in the air. When they saw the land, the Indians quickly surrounded them with 20 ships, and the crew clearly saw that "(India) men and women are extremely correct in appearance and limbs."

Indians on the east coast of North America planted corn extensively, and the harvest was good, which ensured that they would not go hungry. At the same time, there are oyster farms by the sea, and the harbor is full of Atlantic salmon, short-nosed sturgeon and striped bass. At the end of spring every year, the river is crowded with white fish migrating upstream.

The staple food of Indians is corn, plus beans, meat and so on, and the nutrition is absolutely balanced. Therefore, most Indians at that time were tall, strong, confident and elegant. After meeting the first Indian chief, Wei razzano wrote: "The beauty of height and physique is the ultimate I can describe."

A European named John Wyatt once lived with Indians in what is now North Carolina for 65,438+05 months. He created more than 70 watercolor paintings related to Indians, among whom Indians were tall and strong, and many postures were as beautiful as ancient Greek statues.

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An early missionary said that the Indians in Ontario thought the French were "mentally retarded compared with them." Indians living in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia find the superiority of Europeans funny: "If Christianity in Wen Mingzhen is so great, why do its residents want to move to other places?"

At the sight of these short, ugly and smelly Europeans, Indians were full of ridicule and contempt.

For example, in 1523, Wei razzano and other crew members lived in an Indian village for 15 days. Wei razzano's embarrassing record is that once Indian women appear, this group of European sailors begin to make "annoying noises", and Indians can only arrange women far away.

In fact, when these immigrants boarded the ship, they had no idea where to land. They dream that America is full of fertile land and gold and silver-but they refuse to hire experienced navigators and always think that a map is enough.

So 102 crew set off happily with a small amount of food. At last, when we arrived at the destination, we couldn't find a suitable landing place, so we had to look for a few weeks on the coastline-many hungry and cold colonists died on the ship.

Then I finally landed, only to find that there are still many problems. For example, these European immigrants originally planned to grow crops on this fertile land-however, they forgot to bring cattle, sheep, mules and horses, and none of them were experienced farmers.

Then fishing is always possible. Unfortunately, these immigrants only brought a small amount of crude fishing gear, which is of little use. What about hunting? Winter is coming, prey is hard to find, and there are hostile Indians in the forest. No one dares to go in.

As a result, these immigrants were cold and hungry, and they didn't even have a place to live.

Quite simply, the temporary residence of these European immigrants is the abandoned settlement of Indians, and they can live after house renovation. As for the food problem, they searched from house to house, even dug up the graves of Indians, and even found the corn stored by Indians in 10 bushel (1 bushel is about 36 liters).

An immigrant from Mayflower wrote, "It must be God's will that we can find this corn. Otherwise, we don't know what to do. "

Of course, we can think that these immigrants are full of adventurous spirit, but even modern European and American scholars admit that those early colonists came to America with no experience and no preparation-without the food left by Indians, these colonists who were strongly advocated by Americans would have died long ago.

This leads to two questions: Why are there settlements abandoned by Indians? Why don't Indians help them?

When Wei razzano arrived at the North American coast in 1523, there were Indian settlements everywhere, and they were also willing to contact with Europeans and exchange goods with each other.

However, European sailors have one of the most disgusting habits: kidnapping aborigines. As early as 1492, Columbus kidnapped a dozen Indians and transported them to Europe for "display". 150 1 year, the Portuguese adventurer Gaspar Carte-Real kidnapped more than 50 Indians ... The original Indians had no idea that this would happen and were full of doubts.

After that, although the Indians continued to contact and communicate with Europeans, they would not let these Europeans stay in their own territory for too long.

Captain John Smith is a famous adventurer. He has an adjutant named Thomas Hunter. When Smith returned to England, the adjutant Hunter decided to steal a ticket. He took people back to Indian territory and invited local people aboard.

Before that, Indians had a good relationship with the British crew. They didn't realize it was a trap, so they all went on a boat trip. As a result, Hunter immediately ordered the sailors to drive the Indians into the cabin. After the Indians resisted, sailors shot and killed many people.

Finally, more than a dozen Indians were kidnapped, and there were many casualties. This made the local Indian tribes extremely angry, and the chiefs vowed not to let Europeans go ashore to rest. Later, Geilke, a colonist in Maine, said with emotion, "Because of this worthless hunter, there is a war between the residents in those areas and us now."

In fact, Indians began to be hostile to Europeans by oral means. Some European sailors were imprisoned, and Indians ordered them to leave the United States by boat ... It was in this contact that diseases spread among Europeans.

The defenseless Indians soon died in large numbers, and the survivors had to flee and give up many settlements. Because of this, Mayflower immigrants were lucky enough to find shelter and food to survive the first winter.

So the original colonists did not have obvious advantages in front of the Indians. At that time, no one thought that the Indians were defeated by the disease so quickly and handed over a large area of land. ...