Colonial Williamsburg

Colonial Super Powers: From its birth in early 15th century to its decline in dominance by the 20th century, Colonial Super Powers fueled/sustained empires across oceans. Territories such as Portugal, France, Spain and Great Britain fought incessantly at times for various countries and islands across the world. The largest of all, the Superpowers during that Era, was Great Britain; considered as the Giant Empires with the largest number of colonized countries under its control. These Countries gained

The Society of New France There were many early expeditions from Europe to North America, most in search of a Northwest Passage that linked the Atlantic to the Pacific, thus leading to the wealth of Asia . These excursions alerted Europeans of the resources North America offered and this attraction of fish and furs stimulated annual voyages from Europe to reap the benefits of the New World. As appealing as this discovery was, Europeans considered this New World a harsh environment and

approximately six decades. In the late of 1880s, the French had the control of the Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, commonly known as the French Indochina (Indochine Francais) (Mason 7). As such, Indochina was able to assume the status of being the lucrative colonial possessions of the French. It became the French empire, which spanned the western and northern Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific empires. The French formulated the civilizing mission as a way of justifying their imperialism in the land. Such mission

architecture in this region was stunningly beautiful, when the French came in they upgraded a lot of buildings and public areas. Consequently, the region has a gorgeous mix of French colonial and native architecture. A great example of this resides in a town square where there is a mosque in the center and beautiful French colonial architecture surrounding the rest of the square in Algeria. The French influenced architecture as small as the lamp posts and as big as the grand, efficient highways. Due to this

District started the shift to suburban living and development in Starkville, because the first housing was formerly gathered around the businesses in the central business district. The District is also noteworthy for its architecture with Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman styles contributing to its recognizable atmosphere. The building styles reflect the architectural desires of the university administrators, professors, and

became priority, and a withdrawal of colonial power was quickly administered following a mobilization of African dissenters, nationalists, and third-world activists. States detached from their colonial ancestors and formed anew through

auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.” America wouldn’t have prospered into the powerful confederacy Van Buren describes it to be without the values and ideas of America’s colonial past. America’s present is best understood to be based upon British culture and government. However, colonists fought for freedom from the suffocating British throne, they tolerated religious freedom, and their government was founded on republican

He describes the colonial economy as more rapidly growing and complex than any other economy in this time period. He states that the economy was incredibly competitive, but that the gap between the rich and the poor accelerated more rapidly in prerevolutionary America than

The French empire has often been perceived as being one of the most difficult empires to define as a total whole (SOURCE). There is no such thing as one coherent history of the French empire, but rather the Empire could be divided up into roughly three different individual empires. One can distinguish between three different French empires as starting with the period of the rule of the ancién regime, known as the Kingdom of France, lasting from 1594 to 1789. Subsequently, one can distinct the empire