Why is it important for Chasteen to divide indigenous groups from the Americas into nonsedentary, semisedentary, and fully sedentary groups?

Choose one of the following questions and write a response of one or two paragraphs.

1. Why is it important for Chasteen to divide indigenous groups from the Americas into nonsedentary, semisedentary, and fully sedentary groups? How does this classification help clarify some of his main ideas in this chapter?

2. What other cultures were in contact with the Spaniards and the Portuguese before the “discovery” and conquest of the Americas? Why was this important for the relationship between the Europeans and the natives from the Americas?

3. Why are Brazil and the slave trade important for understanding the conquest and colonization of the rest of Latin America?

4. How did Spaniards defeat and conquer the Incan and Aztec empires, which were not only immense, but also more advanced then them in many cultural aspects? How did conquerors manage to subjugate and convert to Christianity the enormous population of these empires?

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