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The European colonization of North America began with dreams of gold, glory, and new beginnings, but quickly turned into a nightmare for the Indigenous peoples. From the moment Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, a brutal clash of cultures unfolded.
Colonial America was a vast land settled by Spanish, Dutch, French and English immigrants who established colonies such as St. Augustine, Florida; Jamestown, Virginia; and Roanoke in present-day...
Oct 28, 2016 · If you were to recount the earliest European presence in North America as a history of the "proto-United States," you might start with Columbus in 1492, jump to Jamestown in 1607, and treat the intervening 115 years as a few decades.
- Columbus, Portugal, & The Spanish Conquest
- France & The Netherlands
- Early English Colonies
- Conclusion
Trade between Europe and Asia had been ongoing since 130 BCE when the Han Dynasty of China (202 BCE - 220 CE) opened the routes known in the modern day as the Silk Road. Although there were contentions over these routes through the years, and different monarchies or tribes took control of them in whole or in part, they remained open, and goods trav...
The colony of New France was founded in modern-day Canada by the French explorer Jacques Cartier (l. 1491-1557) in 1534. France would also claim land holdings in the regions of modern-day South America, the Caribbean, the state of Louisiana, and elsewhere. Cartier's mission, like Columbus', was to navigate a maritime passage to Asia and return to F...
England, impressed by the wealth Spain was able to acquire from the New World, considered establishing their own colonies there but, first, found it easier to have privateers (state-sponsored pirates) stop Spanish vessels returning from the Americas and seize their cargo, among them Sir Francis Drake(l. c. 1540-1596), known to the Spanish as “the D...
The Jamestown colony barely survived the first few years, losing 80% of its population in only a few months, primarily because those who made up the expedition were either upper-class aristocrats who refused to work for their food or lower-class laborers who had no skill in farming. The colony was saved first by Captain John Smith (l. 1580-1631), a...
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Jul 18, 2024 · Massachusetts thrived due to a shared sense of purpose among the first settlers. Governor John Winthrop declared, “We shall be as a city upon a hill,” envisioning the colony as setting an example for immigrants who followed.
Collingwood's theory of history is variously stated in his works, and it is not always clear whether what he has written in one place is compatible with what he has written in others. The treatment of the subject in the Autobiography is closely in accord with that in The Idea of History, though
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5 days ago · American colonies - Settlements, Migration, Colonization: A variety of motives—political, religious, and economic—contributed to the settling of the Atlantic seaboard. Both labour and capital in England had become fairly fluid by 1600 and were seeking more profitable fields.
