Beginning with a pre-capitalist society, was the interactions between the Europeans and the Native Americans. Harmon, in her excerpt “Savages,’ Rich and Poor” starts by saying that the Indians were poor creatures that needed to be saved by the Europeans. The natives also started showing their wealth by sharing their goods with the Europeans, in hopes of building a relationship with the Europeans. The Europeans, wanted to get ahead, so they took advantage of the Natives, therefore their partnership was not effective. The Europeans wanted all of the extra land in order to be able and produce tobacco, another selfish outcome of the tobacco growing, was that the European were trying to make the Indians consumers. By making them consumers, it would