Columbus Day

The European exploration has forever changes the lives of the North Americas in the 14th to 18th century. The Spanish, French, and British countries were driven by three basic motives: a desire for material gain, a desire to spread religion, and a desire to expand territory. Using these motives, they created effects in the culture, economy, and religion of the areas that were colonized, especially in the Americas. One impact of European exploration is a change in the culture of the…

week later the crew sailed by the Auckland Islands which had previously been marked by Wilkes, then the Campbell Islands where more measurements were recorded. On December 27th the crew recorded seeing their first icebergs and whales and on New Year’s Day 1841, they crossed into the Arctic Circle. Not long after they began their battle with the sea ice, it was recorded in notes that Ross’s compass continued to act strangely the closer the ships got to the pole. The ships continued on through the…

The early 1600s saw the commencing of a large tide of emigration from Europe to North America. Spanning more than three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonists to a flood of millions of newcomers. Impelled by powerful and diverse motivations, they built a new civilization on the northern part of the continent. The first English immigrants to what is now the United States crossed the Atlantic long after thriving Spanish colonies had been established in…

Woodes Rogers was certainly one of the most notable persons that have ever lived in the Caribbean. This Englishman had two big obligations in his life. At first, he was a privateer and later became the first governor of Bahamas. In both duties, his main targets were the pirates . Woodes Rogers took a great part in suppressing pirates in most of the Caribbean Sea . Most of them took his offer of King's amnesty. However, even the bravest pirates, who opposed, ended their careers afterwards, most…

Why the Spanish and The Portuguese were huge contributors to the culture and development of Latin America. The Spanish were the first Europeans to set foot in central and South America. Christopher Columbus was the first European to arrive in the Americas in 1492. This sailor was funded by the Spanish king and queen. He landed in the Bahamas, a small group of islands in the Caribbean and claimed the land for Spain. Hernán Cortés, also from Spain, landed on the coast of Mexico in South America in…

with the indians. Numerous individuals have their own reasons and standpoints as to what happened. But what if there was only one minor element missing? In all actuality, there is no way to be positive of what really happened to the colonists these days, but one resolution could change everything; what if everyone is right? Since there is no factual evidence as to what precisely…

As I would see it, the Europeans profited more from the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian trade of harvests influenced both the Old World and the New. Amerindian trims that have crossed seas—for instance, maize to China and the white potato to Ireland—have been stimulants to populace development in the Old World. The last's yields and animals have had much a similar impact in the Americas—for instance, wheat in Kansas and the Pampa, and meat steers in Texas and Brazil. The full story of the…

After read all material for this forum, I can conclude about Colonial beginnings that it was a period of cultural transformation to American people and England people, period in which the influence of puritans and their ideas about God were strongly marked. Also was of big impact the exploration of the new world for England because they found much wealth and different landscapes rich in fauna and flora; all these occurrences affect the writing of authors because it is the immediate reality of…

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomè de Las Casas, and Bernal Dìaz del Castillo shared a commonality that they were all Spanish explorers in search of the New World. Upon exploring parts of the New World each explorer encountered the natives of this land. Christopher Columbus’s encounter with the natives was from afar because the natives were very skeptical of the ships and the people aboard. The natives observed Columbus and his crew from canoes. Columbus states “that the men he saw in the canoes…

Ethnographic Park Piramides de Guima In the Ethnographic Park Piramides de Guimar they teach a lot about the customs, culture and history of the Canary Islands. In a single visit, without knowing many technical terms, you can get a general idea about the different aspects of the islands.The first panel we found explained a bit about the origin of the familyof Fred Olsen (the owners of the Ethnographic Park Piramides de Guimar) in theCanary Islands and the export of products by sea (bananas,…