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The Age of Exploration was the beginning of territorial expansion for several European countries.
CLEP Social Sciences and History: Sectional Conflict in the U.S. CLEP Social Sciences and History: American Civil War, CLEP Social Sciences and History: U.S. Reconstruction. Brocklehurst, "The Banker who Led Scotland to Disaster". [15] L'Anse aux Meadows is the only site widely accepted as evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. A permanent settlement of 200 soldiers and artisans led by Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere, who had accompanied Ribault on a previous expedition. [8] The post-1492 era is known as the period of the Columbian Exchange, a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), ideas, and communicable disease between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following Columbus's voyages to the Americas. Some of these were on Caribbean islands, which had often already been conquered by the Spanish or depopulated by disease, while others were in eastern North America, which had not been colonized by Spain north of Florida. About 16,000 French men and women became colonizers. In 1607 this populous area was chosen to be the location of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, the Jamestown Colony. Oldest continuously-inhabited European-established settlement in Costa Rica. On May 21, 1607, a week after the colonists began occupying Jamestown, Newport took five colonists (including Smith) and 18 sailors with him on an expedition to explore the rivers flowing into the Chesapeake and to search for a way to the Pacific Ocean. The original Andover, founded by Simon and. Spain was the first European nation of the time to begin exploring North America, mapping out Florida, but their real fame came from defeating the Aztecs of Mexico in 1521. One of the first five New Jersey settlements. As more nations gained an interest in the colonization of the Americas, competition for territory became increasingly fierce. Europeans traded for slaves with the slave capturers of the local native African tribes in exchange for rum, guns, gunpowder, and other manufactures. During Smith’s administration, no settlers died of starvation, and the colony survived the winter with minimal losses. A relatively common misconception is that a small number of conquistadores conquered vast territories, aided only by disease epidemics and their powerful caballeros. Site of Tomakonck, a former native village. [9] Others estimate that there were about 60.5 million people living in the Americas immediately before depopulation,[10] of which 90 per cent, mostly in Central and South America, perished from wave after wave of disease, along with war and slavery playing their part.
European Colonization of North America The invasion of the North American continent and its peoples began with the Spanish in 1565 at St. Augustine, Florida, then British in 1587 when the Plymouth Company established a settlement that they dubbed Roanoke in present-day Virginia. 69 chapters |