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mostly known for his work as Director of the Royal Botanical Expedition to the New Kingdom of Granada. Established in 1783, the Botanical Expedition had the purpose of carrying out a complete natural history of Spain’s «equinoctial» territories in America. Thereby, Mutis led the project of gathering a vast collection of flora and fauna specimens, and of illustrating them, for both theoretical and practical purposes. Likewise, the Botanical Expedition turned into the most prominent center of…

These letters written by Hernan Cortes who was a Spaniard conquistador who first conquest of Cuba and thereafter turn his head to the Mexico to conquest as well. In 1519 he sorted out attack of Mexico. Thereafter, he arrived in Mexico on April 22, 1519. By 1521, he had taken all the control of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan ( Mexico City ).After his conquest of Mexico , Spanish chroniclers offered him to write what he saw in Mexico, thereafter he had to write these letters to show what he…

The Colony of Virginia was the first settlement in America, founded in 1607; The American Dream also began to develop at this time. The governing system was in some ways a democracy; in reality it was more of a plutocracy. Governor Berkeley assigns a council consisting of the wealthy, having both wealthy and power they assigned themselves their own land and hired those who would plant the very profitable Tabaco plant. The America Dream was beginning to flourish for the prosperous settlers.…

girl she is japanese and she came over from her country to get away from where she was and wanted to explore and be free and she thought that America would be the place and everything would be handed to her like a house, a car, a job all of that and she thought all of those things would be handed to her but they weren’t. What happened was she came to America and saw that she was being treated very poorly because of her race and being called names by the bus driver and she said “Please don’t call…

conquests in the North Atlantic eventually took Leif Ericsson to Newfoundland. Over the next few years the Norsemen made at least three different attempts at colonization. The significance of Columbus’ voyage is that it resulted in the first contact with America to have meaningful worldwide values. Columbus set sail for Asia with only three small ships. Columbus envisioned personal wealth to come from his voyages but also dreamed of opening up chances to take the Christian gospel to the heathen.…

There are three topics that I would like to discussion and share with you all for the purpose of the Argumentative Essay. Including, parents should allow kid to draw on wall, video game should be use in class, or writers should be allow to state the facts about our historical event on textbook. The topics that I want to write for the Argumentative Essay would be the writers should be allow to state facts about our historical event on textbook. As a high school or college students, we all require…

Many people believe that pirating is all about adventures, treasure, sea battles, and heroes. Stories such as Treasure Island have romanticized the idea of pirates. Three ways that they have have romanticized the idea of pirates are marooned pirates, mutinies, and less pirate ships. First of all, in Treasure Island a pirate gets marooned. Then three years later, the Hispaniola (Ship from Treasure Island) arrives at Treasure Island, only to have Jim find the marooned pirate, Ben Gunn, in the…

known as a military offense in which a large group of set personnel enter an opposing groups territory with an intent to liberate, re-establish, or conquer said group's territory and all within. Although Europeans that colonized North and South America were not there to liberate or re-establish the indigenous people of the regions they met, they did conquer them. In The American People Creating a Nation and a Society, it states that from the year 1492 to 1518 Europeans explorers, such as those…

The French in America After leaning the exploration and some colonies in the U.S., I read the book A student’s History of the United States which is written by Edward Channing. I found that French is also one of the essential parts of the colonies in the US. The following essay will explain the process how French planted their colonies in America. Let’s start with the early French voyages. The leader of the first French expedition to America was Verrazano who was an Italian instead of a…

Settling in Charles Town If an explorer found open land without hostile native tribes then he would be as happy as a clam at high tide! Back then many countries wanted to claim and create settlements in new land. Settlers wanted to settle in Charles Town but it was very difficult, many died, but after a lot of hard work Charles Town was settled. Charles Town was difficult to settle because of three things geography, resources, and disease. One of the difficulties of settling Charles Town was…