Shipbuilding

Not unlike in other time periods, trade helped expand on growing technologies such as the magnetic compass from China and shipbuilding in China, the Atlantic, and Arabia during the tenth century CE. Thus, resulted in an increase in sea trade. The increase in the preference of sea trade over land trade would lead to the eventual creation of a global market by making it more efficient…

Between 1607 and 1733 England established 13 colonies on the eastern coastline of North America. Settlers came to establish new lives for either religious or economic reasons. The lifestyle and economies of those settlers varied in the three colonial regions based on the climate and geography around them. In the New England colonies, it was hard to make profit from farming so the settlers traded to earn profit. Settlers in the Middle colonies relied trade, manufacturing, and farming for profit.…

The Manhattan Project was a secret military project created to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Fears that Germany would build and use such a weapon during World War II caused the start of the Manhattan Project which was originally in Manhattan, New York. By the summer of 1945, they were ready test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. President Harry S. Truman was warned by his…

Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 by William Penn with a charter granted to him by King Charles II. Pennsylvania was created as a place for the Quakers to be able to practice their religion, to make a profit, and for Penn to exercise liberal ideas. Pennsylvania was the most suitable colony to live in for someone wanting religious freedom, good relations with Native Americans, and to make a living with the good economy. Pennsylvania was a middle colony who had the nickname "bread basket".…

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world,” stated famous Greek inventor, Archimedes . One of the city-states of Greece, Athens, used their adept shipbuilding skills to create the most powerful navy the world had ever seen. Using this great navy as a ‘fulcrum’ the Athenians protected their territory and fended off dangerous enemies like the Persian Empire. The main component of this great navy was a type of ship known as a trireme. The ancient…

North America due to the American market being mainly agricultural based. This geography virtually dictated that the Southern colonies would have an agriculturally based economy and the New England economies would have an economy based on shipping, shipbuilding, and eventually manufacturing. By establishing colonies…

In 1775, four vast groups of immigrants made up most of the colonial population. The settlers of German origin made up six percent of the population in the Pennsylvania Dutch Colony. Settlers and ancestors of Ireland and Scotland were known as the Scotch-Irish immigrants. The Scotch-Irish immigrants spoke the English language and made up seven percent of the population. However, the British Government held no respect for the Scotch-Irish immigrants. Although settlers from England continued to…

From the start of WW2, The Germans tried to destroy and stop supplies and lifelines to Britain. The Atlantic path from North America to Britain vulnerable and in need of defence. Canada contends vital and important role in the battle of the Atlantic. for 6 years the RCN, the Canadian Merchant Navy and therefore the RCAF were the participants primary in the battle of the Atlantic. Canada’s Navy was little owning Six destroyers, 5 little minesweepers, 2 coaching vessels and one squadron of flying…

Three years later, Thorfinn Karlsefni a Viking explorer, who some sources note as Leif Eriksson’s brother and others simply as an acquaintance or companion, sailed to Vinland with his family and a small group of settlers. There he established the first European settlement, besides the short stay of Leif Eriksson. The group of about 130 people “settled there to engage in haymaking, hunting, and fishing.”(Thorfinn). The settlements population grew as the first European child was born at the…

Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were very similar civilizations but also very different. While one place did this, the other did that. They believed in different things but did some of the same things. For example, they both had some form of art happening within all of them, but the Greeks wanted perfection whereas the Romans want real life people. The Greeks statues were of perfect people. The Romans statutes contained all the flaws of real people. The ancient Greek civilizations were…