Colonialism In America

To the Europeans the land they called new world was not new to the natives that lived there all the ancestors of the Native Americans crossed over to north and south America via the bearing straights about 30, 000 years ago. These ancestors of the Native Americans were mostly Asian and by the time that the last glacier receded 10,000 years ago Native Americans had inhabited all the inhabitable parts of north and south America. And being where they where they lived relative isolation from the booming civilization that was happening in the Middle East, the Asian Steppe and Europe. By the time the Europeans arrived in the Americas the Native American population had become diverse and speaking some 300-350 languages with different belief systems and ways of living. For example the Aztec and the Inca had built tremendous empires, the Mississippians or the mound builders had built cities that were surrounded by farm land that expanded from present day St. Louis and Natchez Mississippi. The Pueblo Indians lived in large towns and traded with other …show more content…
After king Henry VIII broke ties with the Catholic church the Church of England mixed protestant theology with elements of Catholicism but there those within the church wanted to eliminate all of the Catholic elements became known as the Puritans. With the constant changing of monarchs came either acceptance or persecution of the Puritans so the best course of action was to leave England. The other reason was that England was getting extremely populated and many of the wealthy land owners evicted their tenants so that they can raise sheep to capitalize on the growing wool trade. This left a lot of poor English unemployed with no home their own recourse was new