Compare And Contrast The English And The Algonquins At Roanoke

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The English and the Algonquins at Roanoke.
• It was late August 1590 when English ships made their way north through rough seas to Roanoke Island, (off the coast of present-day North Carolina)
• Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in America.
• Walter Raleigh, a wealthy adventurer who saw prophet and prestige by organizing an English colony to compete with Spain Powerful Empire in the New World.
• Although Manteo, from the village of Croaton, argued that their technology would make the English powerful allies, Wanchese described the disturbing inequalities of English society and warned of potential brutality. He was Raleigh used them as surfs
• The English settlers of Roanoke became the thing known as the lost colony, the disappearance
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• Within a generation of Christopher Columbus voyage, continental exchanges of people, crops, animals, and germs had reshaped the Atlantic world.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
• Western Europe was an agricultural society, the majority of the people were peasant farmers. From the 11th to the 14th century, farmers more than double the quantity of European land cultivation, and accordingly the population nearly tripled
• Europe is characterized by social system called feudalism. The continent was invited to a small territories, each ruled by a family of lords. Feudal lords commanded labor service from peasants, and tribute in the form of crops.
THE MERCHANT CLASS AND THE NEW MONARCHIES
• Strength by technological breakthroughs of the late Middle Ages, the European economy proved that it had a great capacity for recovery.
The Renaissance
• Renaissance the revival of interest in classical antiquity sparked the period of intellectual and artistic flowering in Europe during the 14th and 15th
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COLUMBUS REACHES THE AMERICAS
• In 1492, the couple have succeeded in conquering Grenada, the last Muslim-controlled province in Iberia, ending a century’s long struggle known as Reconquista.
• Columbus’s 3 vessels left the port of Palos, Spain, in August 1492. And stopped in canary Islands
• Mundus Novus “New World”
The Spanish in the Americas
• A century after Columbus’s death, before the English had planted a single successful New World colony of their own, the Spanish had created a huge and wealthy empire in the Americas.
THE INVASION OF AMERICA
• The first stages included scenes of frightful violence, armed men marched across the Caribbean islands, plundering villages, slaughtering men, and raping women.
• Depletion of gold on Hispaniola led to the invasion of the island of Puerto Rico and Jamaica in 1508, then Cuba in 1511
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES
• The natives of the outermost islands successfully defended their homelands until the end of 16th century, and in the arid lands of northern Mexico the nomadic tribes the Spanish new collectively as the Chichimecs proved equally difficult to subdue.

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