European explorers marveled at the sight of iguanas, rattlesnakes, tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and lowly potatoes. These new crops revolutionized the international economy not to mention the European diet. In 1493, Columbus unloaded at Hispaniola twelve hundred men, cattle, swine, and horses. The horses soon reached the North Am

erican mainland through Mexico and in less than two centuries spread as far as Canada. Indian tribes like the Apaches, Sioux, and Blackfoot quickly adopted the horse. The horse transformed their cultures into highly mobile, wide-ranging hunters. A “sugar revolution” took place after the sugar cane seedlings Columbus had brought prospered so greatly in the Caribbean climate.

Relations between the early English settlers and the Indians were tense. The starving colonists took to raiding Indian food supplies. When Lord De La Warr arrived in 1610, he carried orders that amounted to declaration of war against the Indians in the Jamestown region. His troops raided Indian villages, burned houses, confiscated provisions, and torched cornfields. Relationships between

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