Captain America

12. James Cook James Cook, a captain of the English Royal Navy and fellow seaman, disproved the theory about the “Southern Continent” when he led the first expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle. Throughout his expeditions, Cook created numerous charts of unexplored islands in the Pacific Ocean. On his third voyage south he discovered many islands, including Hawaii. Cook’s discoveries and numerous charts became invaluable to the future English explorers. 13. Vitus Bering The Danish explorer…

first starts off with the mention of England and the East Indies Trade Company then moves on to talk about the first voyages to Madagascar and the disasters from settling and efforts on colonizing the foreign island then concluding on the story of Captain Johnson and the introduction to pirates in Madagascar. Professor McDonald primarily targets the Madagascar colonization and supports his argument mainly through primary sources. While reading Prof. McDonald’s book, there were many times where…

In general, Reich’s book gives us an insight of the early trading amongst the countries and how they depended on each other countries imports for personal or their people use. Therefore, the ideas of finding new trading partners were always encouraging and the during the Renaissance or rebirth the people started becoming creative in finding a new trade route to reach India and China and a new world than their forbears of the Middle Ages (Reich, 2011, p. 3). Therefore, missionaries and traders…

praised as a hero of their time? In this paper, reasons why Columbus’ discovery of the Americas did not make the world a better place will be explained. Native Americans were killed in the millions, alien plants and animals wiped out native foliage and game, and with the sudden boom of sugar, tobacco, and cotton plantations, slave demand grew exponentially. One excellent example of why Columbus’ discovery of the Americas had a negative impact was the immense decimation of Native…

Amerigo Vespucci was the first to recognize that the land Christopher Columbus claimed to be Asia, was not actually Asia, but in fact, a “New World” later to be named after Amerigo, himself. Born in the fifteenth century, Vespucci was well educated and especially fond of cartography. Although born and raised in Italy, he lived for many years in Spain and held many different jobs before he embarked on his first journey. Vespucci set sail a total of four times, each voyage bringing its unique…

The Powhatans The coming of the Europeans to America was catastrophic for the indigenous American civilisations as the Europeans began settling in North America in the 17th century, when North America was less developed and less populated at the time, when English colonists arrived, costal Virginia was inhabited by the Powhatan Indians who were Algonquian-speaking people. The Powhatans lived in villages and villages within the same area belonged to one tribe. Each tribe had it’s own Werowance…

The Journey of Catalina de Erauso Erauso’s mysterious and twisted journey of gender identity crisis, deception, lies, addictions, and the death of a sibling, all began in the 1500s. Erauso was born to his/her father Captain Miguel de Erauso an officer in the Spanish army and mother Maria Perez Galarraga both happen to of been native residents of the Villa. Catalina was first sent to a convent upon age four as well as her two sisters. Due to the nature of Erauso’s temper her parents decided that…

ways. “Think you I am so simple, not to know it is better to eat good meat, lay well, and sleep quietly with my women and children, laugh and be merry with you, have copper, hatchets or what I want being your friend?” (Chief Powhatan’s Speech to Captain John Smith). Even though the native Americans and English were in tense situations they still needed each other’s resources. If the Native Americans did not supply food to the English, they could have starved. Because of these trades to keep the…

as fabric and dyes, coming from Asia. But the Muslim occupation of the Eastern trade routes made it dangerous to travel to and from. In 1492, Christopher Columbus thought he could reach Asia by sea to the West, and, while trying, stumbled upon the Americas. At first, the land was seen simply as an obstacle hindering tradesmen from Asia. It wasn’t until later that the land was seen as…

The history of the European presence in the Americas is usually written in gleaming terms. The search for riches and glory has brought the European powers unto a new age of power unseen since to the level of an empire. The one constant feature of any empire, however, is that there is always a group that must yield to a more powerful force. The European expansion into the New World was no different in that in order to take advantage of the America’s fertile virgin land first the natives must…