Why was it difficult for farming to replace the traditional way of life of Native Americans? How did they improve techniques to make it more successful?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Disadvantages of farming
1. soil erosion and forest depletion forced Native Americans to shift the
sites of their towns
2. maize exhausts soil more quickly than other grains
3. no hard-metal tools for planting
4. old techniques not efficient
a. method of cutting and burning trees yielded ash for fertilizer,
but left a landscape strewn with stumps
B. Traditional way of life
1. hunting, fishing, gathering wild berries, and tapping maple trees for
Syrup
2. contact with colonial and overseas markets helped improve their
techniques
C. Improvements of techniques
1. adopted firearms for the kill and steel knives to skin and butcher game
2. deerskins for the European leather trade an equally valuable product
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