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    history” (Axtell 981). But James Axtell, the author of Colonial America without the Indians: Counterfactual Reflections, would beg to differ. He says that instead, Indians played a key role in making America great. James Murray gives another term to describe America’s greatness: America’s “exceptionalism.” Throughout his article Axtell makes many points as to why Indians played a vital role in “American Exceptionalism”. He even says that America wouldn’t have been colonized nearly as soon if the Indians

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    1. The best contributors were Acadia, Grant, Eric, and Keara. Acadia gave a wonderful opening statement full of convincing facts and thoroughly showed the villainous qualities of Columbus. Grant had an extensive rebuttal which showed how prepared he was for the debate. Eric made a great comparison of Columbus’ slave gold mine and modern day China’s overworked and underpaid employees. Keara gave a passionate closing, which really tore into the other side’s arguments. 2. While both sides did exceedingly

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    Throughout the entire Colonial Exploration Unit, I learned a great deal about colonial expansion and economy. One of the first things we learned was about the Vikings and their early exploration of North America. Then we started discussing maps, more specifically longitude and latitude. We learned how the Roman scholar, Claudius Ptolemaeus, also known as Ptolemy, was the first to propose the idea of a grid system for the entire planet (Rosenburg). This was later known as lines of longitude and latitude

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    the immigrants living and struggling in this country. Jamestown, was the 1st permanent British Colony in America, was commanded by Captain John Smith. This week I learn about the advantages that help the Colonist to upsurge above the Indians, interesting enough technology, weather, earth are among this, is fascinating to see how even then technology play a huge role in this period. The colonials had superior

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    native empires in Brazil, so the Portuguese kings was unwilling to set up costly mechanisms of colonial government in the New World. 10) The Spanish and Portuguese colonies differed from those established in North America by the French and Great Britain. Unlike the French and Great Britain who had tax policies that were given to gain empirewide victory that isolated a great amount of the American colonial population, the Spanish and Portuguese

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    Early English settlers came to colonial America to escape religious oppression in England, however, one settling in America they enforced their own religious oppression on both natives, and colonials who dared to question their religion. The colonial hierarchy had a very basic pattern, those who followed the religion of the colony had the most power. Those who opposed were given little to no power, and we often forced to either stay silent or leave the community as a whole in search of land in which

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    The defeat of the Spanish Armada & the Protestant Reformation are the two events that caused the settlement in America. The In the beginning of the starving years the Virginia Company wanted form a settlement in North America. Virginia was an English named after Elisabeth I, the “Virgin Queen”. .This Company had a lot of investors who wanted to make big profits of goods in Jamestown, Virginia. The first English colony that was discovered is called Jamestown, Virginia. The colony was sponsored by

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    In the early American days, America was mostly controlled by English and French settlers. They fought for land near the fertile Ohio River Valley, both claiming to own the land. The strive to fully own this land led to the French and Indian war in 1754. The French fought with the Native Americans against England and its colonies. In 1763, the war finally ended with the surrender at Montreal and the Treaty of Paris. England had won the war, but at a certain price. Eventually, through a chain of events

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    During Colonial Latin America, the major production of silver and mercury as benefited Spaniards, while Indians worked for hours in the mines. Miners during this time were exposed to dangerous conditions in which many died of diseases, contamination/poisoning and injuries and all for low payments. In Mercury, Mining, and Empire, Nicholas A. Robins incorporates the labor system and the processes behind the production of mercury and silver. Also, the pollution that surged as consequence and the conditions

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    Despite popular belief, the contact between Native Americans and Europeans did not just pertain to a casual encounter of the two groups but a more in depth experience. James Axtell in chapter 4 of his book titled Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America states that the purpose of his essay was to reveal the numerous ways Natives reacted and responded to the newcomers of Europe of the Columbus era. The reactions of the Natives consist of inviting the Europeans in to their lives and customs

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