“Their world, quite literally, changed before the Indians’ e…
“Their world, quite literally, changed before the Indians’ eyes as European colonists transformed the forest into farmland. . . . In the Southeast, hogs ran wild. Sheep and goats became permanent parts of the economy and culture of Pueblo and Navajo peoples in the Southwest. Horses transformed the lives and cultures of Indian peoples on the plains. Europeans also brought honeybees, black rats, cats, and cockroaches to America.” — Colin G. Calloway, historian, First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History, 2012 Europeans most typically explained the process described in the excerpt in which of the following ways?