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Colonization Colonial expansion is often times credited to a countries economic gain, in regards to the development of trade routes, tributes, taxation, and a surplus of raw goods (Belcastro et al., 2007; Galaty, 2002; Hammond, 1992; Harding, 1992; Klaus et al., 2009; Larsen, 1994; Larsen et al., 2001; Schrader, 2012; Stipčević, 1977; Wilkes, 1992; Wright, 2014). Often times the lives of both the colonizers and local inhabitants were transformed during these forays into new regions (Klaus et al…

How can you describe the rise and fall of the Dutch North American colonization? The Dutch played a crucial role in the formation of North America. This essay will highlight the significant achievements. It will also discuss how it rose to power, its downfall, where the Dutch settled and who their leaders were. As the English immigrants struggled to expand Virginia, the Dutch claimed the Hudson River Valley. The French also acquired St. Lawrence at the same time. They procured Manhattan from…

African slavery was necessary in the early seventeenth century for the European settlers in the new world. In North America, African slavery was taken into account because it was way cheaper and they were better at working in plantations than indentured servants. These slaves worked on plantations of tobacco and indigo. In the eighteenth century more or less about six…

"In fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Christopher Columbus has become well known as the man who discovered America. Though the fact that he discovered the Americas has been debunked and proven false, he had made a tremendous impact on how our land came to be. The age of his exploration was made possible only by the king and queen of Spain. And when Columbus got his shot he brought colonization, disease, death, and a multitude of other factors that affected how the…

The Renaissance was a period full of violence, controversy, and new discoveries. The discovery of the New World happened to involve all of those things. Christopher Columbus did discover the New World but he also was very brutal in doing it and lied about it. He fooled everybody until the King and Queen found out while he was on his third voyage, they sent him back to Spain and he was thrown in jail. When the King and Queen heard of what really went on during his voyages and how many were…

In 1492 the wars in Spain came to a halt.King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had become two of the most important people in Catholicism, for they had become the Catholic Kings. In 1943 word had reached Europe that Christopher Columbus had reached a new landmass, also known as the new world. With this news, people from Europe started to come to the new world, and thus caused different ethnic groups to start mixing, not only in culture but in physical ethnicity as well. People that had Indigenous…

the Americas, we have always used the land. The Native Americans used the land for years before the English, French, Spaniards and Africans came. From the time we took to come over to the Americas, even by accident, we used the land. To get to the Americas we used water routes, the berringstreight, and land bridge. When we finally got to the Americas the land was different from over in England and Spain, as well as Africa. When the English along with Christopher Columbus came to the Americas,…

unmistakable on the surface, but can be very puzzling at its core. To find the connective tissue that holds Americana music together, as well as truly define what the term itself means, one must dig deep and trace far, essentially all the way back to when America as we know it began to evolve into the country it is today.…

England coming over to America was a new experience for them; however, there were other immigrant groups there before the English. There were the Native Americans and the Spaniards, and they were all fighting for land in order to make more plantations meaning more money. England ended up going to war with the Natives and the French called the French and Indian War that lasted seven years until the it ended with the English winning and the creation of the Treaty of Paris, forcing borders between…

My name is Thomas McCormick. I was reading your article “Race, Empire, and Transnational History,” on the colonial history of the United States and I found it interesting to raise a different point of view on the subject. I’m interested in researching about the area and I have recently published an article titled “From Old Empire to New: The Changing Dynamics and Tactics of American Empire”. In my article, I try to provide the explanations for growth of American power at the end of the…