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the northern borders to what is present day Beijing. The Treasure Fleet during China’s Ming Dynasty proves that China had the navigational tools and technologies for maritime expansion in the Atlantic Ocean in the fifteenth century, long before Western Europe made the discovery of the…

Zuan Chiabotto a venetian navigator and adventurer claims that He reached the American mainland in 1498, a year before Columbus reached the same continent. Alwyn Ruddock, an English scholar, found a letter sent by a British trader named John Day to Columbus. The letter explained that the North American continent was discovered by a sailor from the port of Bristol in 1470. Meanwhile Scandinavian scholars also considered that vikings had sailed to the coast of North America before British and…

Governing the Spanish Empire in the Western Hemisphere Life in colonial New Spain [Spanish colonies] was complex — the dominant institutions and cultural patterns were Spanish in origin, but they were modified in their New World setting. Society was not static; evolution marked the political and religious systems; and change was a feature of the economic, social, and intellectual life. These adaptations generally mirrored developments in Europe, the source of basic decisions and control.…

end there, the spread of ideas and cultures further with European intervention after the Greeks, Mongols, Roman empire, Muslims, East Asians and other ancient civilizations set up the stage. Western European intervention into the globalization was a long but slow movement. By the fourteenth century, western European became fully participant and major economic complex that spread goods and ideas across the old world (25). Though European faced some serious regressions such as the black death…

from like: Asia, Europe, or Beringia. The Asia argument asserts the first migrants came from Siberia, the Solutrean hypothesis argues that people came from Europe (Oppenheimer et al,. 2014). In Beringia there was ice-free corridor between Asia and the Americas, that allowed people to migrate (Goebel et al., 2008). The continental route argues that the first migrants spread rapidly during the last ice age from Beringia to Tierra del Fuego passing through an ice-free corridor, in western Canada…

Victoria Major Mrs. McAndrew Honors World History December 1, 2014 Exploration During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exploration has changed in many different ways. It started to become more and more advanced by the second. Not only did the countries gain power in many places, but it also brought control and wealth as well. These were essential to exploration because if it wasn’t for trade, many places like France, Spain, and England wouldn’t have the control and power over the…

many effects that changed the American life forever.. Between 1877-1900, the country’s population increased by about 27 million people. Before 1880, most of the immigrant population came from Western Europe and China. At the end of the century, most immigrants were emigrating from Southern and Eastern Europe - giving this era its name “New Immigration.” The sudden increase in immigration caused a lot of controversy in America. Immigrants were taking American jobs which resulted in wages cuts…

and more than three hundred separate languages has evolved in North America before European conquest. Members of different groups trades goods over extremely long distances. Burial mounds in the Ohio Valley, for example, have yielded obsidian from western Wyoming, shells from Florida, mica quarried in North Carolina and Tennessee, and copper from near Lake Superior. Yet how ever advanced the Native America cultures of the south and Mississippi Valley may have been, both cultures disappeared…

The Columbian Exchange was a work written by Dr. Alfred Crosby in 1972. He wrote it after studying the Western Hemisphere a century after Christopher Columbus came to the Caribbean. In the work Crosby pointed out that there was four changes between the Europeans and the Native Americans. Some of the exchanges where good which included the exchange plants and animals. There was also exchanges that were harmful to both the Europeans and the Native Americans these would have the exchange of…

as the Aztec and Inca of America. The Spanish, Portuguese, French, British, and Dutch people also built their own empires and strived to expand them in different parts of the world. One of the earliest modern empire built was those of the western part of Europe. Europe’s empires were mostly on the American region due to proximity. Trading and movement of material and human resources are also strong driving force for the “colonization.” European Empires were more advanced in terms of technology…