What does the image tell us about how the Europeans viewed the Native Americans?

Read The Middle Grounds section in Chapter 2 of your textbook and then analyze the engraving with your newfound knowledge. The image below is entitled “Vespucci Awakens a Sleeping America.” Johanes Stradanus engraved it in 1600. What does the image tell us about how the Europeans viewed the Native Americans? What does it tell us about how the Europeans saw themselves in the context of new world exploration? (The image is an engraving of a European’s first encounter with the New World)

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