Jacques Cartier

According to Christopher Columbus, “Following the light of the sun, we left the old world” . In the year 1492 a European explorer called Christopher Columbus lead a Spanish expedition, which located the western hemisphere including North America, South America and the Caribbean . Columbus's discovery led to an era of European exploration and colonization. As such a country colonizes land when it sets up settlements, colonies, or people and controls the economies and governments in them. There…

1. What was Native American society like before European contact? What similarities and difference existed? The indigenous peoples of what is now the United States were split into countess tribes, practiced a variety of religions and traditions, and developed different ways of life in different environments across North America. Some native tribes were nomadic hunter-gatherers, migrating based on seasonal changes, while others lived in settled communities with larger populations. Settled tribes…

The Concept of Voyages and the Impact of Columbus’ Second Voyage on the Caribbean Introduction Historically, when speaking of voyages, emphasis is not placed on the term per se; rather, most historians denote the period depicting the age of discovery. Therefore, in a nut shell, voyages existed within this period of discovery, and were conducted for several reasons. History does not provide the exact date as to when this age begun. However, a consensus on the matter affords that the age of…

The United States is often described as a “Melting Pot.” 20,000 years ago people began traveling to the Americas from the Beijing Straits. Since the early days of naval exploration, people have been colonizing the land and forming communities with people of similar nationality and culture. The Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Swedish all established small colonies that would one day grow and attract other cultures. African Slaves were brought into Jamestown in 1619. Later, Irish, Chinese,…

CRACK! The ice breaks under the Inuit hunter, while he is waiting for his chance to catch a walrus or any other food they can find. He tries to jump out of the way of the newly found hole in the ice, but slips. He swerves with all his might to get out of the way of the hole, and barely made it. Now, the ice in the Arctic is melting very fast, due to all the pollution we are causing, and the Inuit are living there, and have to watch as their home begins to melt. In other places, the Iroquois and…

Anniversaries are occasions to reflect on the ongoing significance of events from the past. As I write this today, not a month has elapsed since 251 years prior, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued. Even though throughout the 17th and 18th centuries the British crown exercised its legislative power through a variety of royal proclamations & acts; and notwithstanding that 251 years have passed since its release, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 is certainly one that should be commemorated.…

For decades, America has been known as a land of immigrants; people from England, France, Spain, and other countries descended on the New World to leave a lasting impression, one that can still be seen today in American culture. But of them all, England probably had the greatest effect on America. Since the time of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, Spain had been colonizing almost all the areas in the South, in what is today South America and along the South and West coast of what is now…

Native Americans are rarely recognized for the significant and truly fundamental impact they made in American history. For the most part, James Axtell states, Native Americans have been regarded as “exotic or pathetic footnotes to the main course of American history.”1 This idea, and the ways Native Americans have been approached in history, as either ‘heroes’ or ‘victims’, all but erase their existence. One of the approaches by historians to Native American history, the ‘contributions’ approach…

Unit 1 Vocab Exchange & Interactions (WXT,ENV) Corn - One of the many crops from the Americas that was brought over to Europe through the Columbian Exchange as a result of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World. Horses - A form of transportation and livestock from Europe that brought itself to the Americas via the Columbian Exchange. Horses heavily aided in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas. However, the Aztecs and Incas would later utilize horses for transportation and…