Voice of America

settlers, much to the disturbance of John Smith, are looking gold that doesn’t exist in Virginia. However, goods like animal fur, timber, and other goods showed a natural abundance that offered economic advancement.(Jamestown and the Founding of English America).This doesn’t mean the English settlers didn’t respect the Natives as Captain Newport ordered them not to disturb the Natives as trade will be important between the two groups. Respect quickly turned into fear with Natives being called…

With the colonies so far away, who can tell what news is real, and what is fake. Well rest assured you can trust the Colonial Times and our team of reporters that we send to America to bring back accurate news, and significant stories. Today we take a look at colonial farm life and the essence of there emerging government. Farm life in the colonies, not unlike our own, requires toil and exertion from sunrise to sunset. Each day, colonial crops like tobacco and corn must be tended to…

COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER (1451–1500), discoverer of America, thought by some to have been of Marrano extraction. He was himself mysterious when speaking of his origin, apparently having something in his background which he wished to conceal. However, he boasted cryptically about his connection with King David and had a penchant for Jewish and Marrano society. Spanish scholars have attempted to explain the fact that this great hero of Spanish history was almost certainly born in Genoa, Italy, by the…

I didn’t choose readings on The Northern Frontier Spain, but what I know, Spain started moving north soon after the conquest of Mexico looking for wealth and salvation of souls. Christian Indians were sent to the north to assist in the conversion to Christianity. The king of Spain, in 1598 made a decision to settle the lands to the north of Mexico. Spain also sent Don Juan Onate to lead the mission in the areas to the north. Don Juan Onate left Santa Barbara in 1595. His band of soldiers, slaves…

enthusiastic about their collective youth and the national situation in the United States, which caused them a continuing concern. Now in this day and age, it feels like the term American is used to refer to all the people that just simply come from America. Usually, the use of this term can generate some type of controversy since there are different ways of understanding it depending on where one is located. Thus, the majority of Americans say that being American is only true when you are born…

When the New World was “discovered,” it it was likely a surprise to the millions of indigenous people that occupied the the land. “Before the Spaniards’ arrival, central Mexico had been a densely populated, urbanized, sedentary civilization. City states, or altepetl, had dotted the landscape, allied with or opposed to the the dominant Mexica. (Owensby Empire 24). The Spaniards did not find an empty continent, they found an advanced and organized civilization. At the root of this civilization…

When the Portuguese first arrived in Brazil during the 1500’s they expected to find a land more colonized and full of abundant resources such as metals. It was also expected of them to see a more socially disciplined land of people. To their surprise they found Brazilian hunters and gatherers who had barely started working in the agriculture business, using different techniques like the slash and burn techniques. The natives had low technological advances and low resources and were on thin…

A New World Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America, once said: “By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, once may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” This quote may seem ironic because Columbus never truly reached his intended destination, the Indies. Instead, what Columbus believed to be the Indies was actually America. On October 12, 1492, the day Columbus reached the New World, everything changed for Columbus, and he never even knew it. Columbus was born…

American society. Crévecoeur traveled around the American colonies to gain the information he needed to write his essays for the rest of the world to read. Crévecoeur uses his determined tone and rhetorical strategies to portray the citizens in the Americas as their own society and describes how they flourished. Crévecoeur wanted to justify why the Americans should have left the countries they did and why the Americans should no longer claim their old country. Crévecoeur states in his essay…

colonies around the world following the exploits of Christopher Columbus was when Cortes took Montezuma hostage and killed him in order to capture Tenochtitlán. The fall of the Aztecs at Tenochtitlán marked the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The next event that took place competing for colonies was lead by Francisco Pizarro that was similar to Coronado's situation in Peru. He tricked Atahualpa into meeting for a “peace meeting” but really took the Incas offered the Spanished…