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    USA AND COMMONWELTH 1. Discovery and settlement In the Last Ice Age the level of the sea water lowed‚ and people from Central Asia crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska. Five hundred years ago Indians in North America lived in scattered villages. Indians joined to protect themselves to common enemies. They founded the Iroquois leage and the Algonquin leage‚ later known as the Leage of the five Nations. They made only the simplest tools. There were no cities ando no white men. White

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    struggle to see who would claim North America. In the 18th century‚ Spain‚ France‚ and England were all trying to win control of North America. Spain already had control over Florida‚ and France maintained its reign of the northern and central areas. The Frances interest in fur trade and England’s concern over their tobacco crop caused the inclination for more land that led to clashes between the two countries. England won this struggle for many reasons‚ some of which were: its ability to annex other

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    Settlement Revision Settlement Site There are eight main things that help to choose a site to build a settlement. They are called factors. The eight factors are Wet point Dry point Building Materials Defence Fuel Supply Food Supply Bridging point Shelter and Aspect. Wet Point. A settlement needs to be close to a reliable source of water. In early days‚ rivers were clean enough to give a safe‚ permanent supply. Dry Point. A site has to be safe from flooding and away from marshy areas

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    the following colonies before 1763: Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Massachusetts Bay Rhode Island According to a specific quote‚ economic issues determined the development of the early English colonies. This quotation is not entirely valid‚ considering religion played major roles in early North America. Economic and religious issues determined the development of the English colonies. Chesapeake Bay English colonies such as Maryland and New England colonies like Massachusets

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    establishment of the New World had begun. Although Spain and England both focused on the colonization and exploration of the Americas‚ their ambitions and goals were very different. The most important reasons for English colonization were religious freedom‚ to seek refuge‚ and new economic opportunities. The Spanish‚ on the other hand‚ exploited the New World in search of gold and silver‚ greed navigated their search. Although both the English and the Spanish experienced mild success‚ the English tactics for

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    Spanish and English have a similar alphabet‚ but the phonologies of the two languages have several differences. For this reason‚ some Spanish learners get in trouble in English pronunciation. For example‚ as Gorman and Kester (n.d.) stated‚ Spanish and English share several consonantal phonemes including the stop sounds /p/‚ /t/‚ /k/‚ /b/‚ /d/‚ /g/‚ the nasals /m/‚ /n/‚ the fricatives /s/‚ /f/‚ the liquid /l/‚ the glide /w/‚ /j/‚ and the glottal /h/. Despite these common phonetic symbols‚ it is

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    Unit 1- chapters 1-4 Chapter 1:New world Beginnings‚ 33‚000 B.C.-A.D. 1769 1. How did Indian societies of South and North America differ from European societies at the time the two came into contact? In What ways did Indians retain a “world view” different from that of the Europeans? 2. What role did disease and forced labor (including slavery) play in the early settlement of America? Is the view of Spanish and Portuguese as especially harsh conquerors

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    did the English colonies develop differently from the Spanish and French colonies? When thinking of different colonies from United States history‚ the first one that comes to mind is the English colony‚ in which it was a colony that had an already established abundance of riches‚ knowledge‚ and experience. Why is this so? What was so different about English colonies that made them develop differently? All in all‚ in what ways did the English colonies develop differently from the Spanish and French

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    The Roanoke Colony The Roanoke colony‚ a settlement now looked at through the eyes of curiosity. What happened to them? Why did it happen? Will we ever find out what really happened? These are the questions that come to mind when anyone who has heard about the Roanoke colony think about this mysterious event. Many people hope to answer these questions and I am one of them. We may never know what really happened‚ so the best we can do is narrow it down to a few possibilities that are much more

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    reputation of freedom‚ New Netherlands was barely governed. New Amsterdam‚ the center of main population‚ was a fortified military outpost controlled by appointees of the West India Company. Neither an elected assembly nor town council (the basic units of government) was established. Even though the Dutch were known for pride in having religious toleration‚ it would be wrong to attribute modern ideas of religious freedom to either the Dutch government at home or the new rulers of New Netherlands. Both

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