destiny made people travel around the country and take land from others. They would kill Native Americans for their land and make them their slaves. They would then put Native Americans in reservations where they were forced to live and they weren’t able to leave. Native Americans were forced to harvest crops and do what the Europeans told them. The Europeans expanded west and and made civilizations. Native Americans were becoming overwhelmed with incoming Europeans. The Europeans took their
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world, globalization has had an effect on every culture. The cultural traditions and belief systems of the first explorers had an effect on the indigenous people of the lands where their ships landed. In modern times, with technology making the world a smaller place, the ability of individuals to take their culture around the world has become simpler. Globalization effects native people in ways both positive and negative. The positive effects include the influx of capital that allows for improving
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tuff and then placed on stone platform. It is still unknown exactly why these statues were constructed in such numbers and on such a scale, or how they were moved around the island. The first known European visitor to Easter Island was the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who arrived in 1722. They named the island Paaseiland that translates to easter island to mark the day they arrived. In 1770 Peru sent an expedition
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The explorer named Zebulon Pike was recently assigned to aid Lewis and Clark’s expedition. During their time in the Mississippi River, Lewis and Clark split off from the expedition group, leaving Pike with about twenty. For months, Pike and his men continued up the Mississippi to a region unknown up to a lake. Pike named this lake Cass Lake and discovered that the lake was the Mississippi’s water source. However, recent research has concluded that this was a mistake. Beside that, Pike gathered critical
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The Lewis and Clark expedition impacted the United States of America extremely. Thomas Jefferson and others who had led the effort to create a new nation in the former British colonies had long sought to expand the nation’s borders. Very formidable obstacles stood in their way, namely the presence of the French and the fact that little was known about the land purchased from the French, let alone what lay beyond it. The first obstacle was effectively removed when Jefferson was elected president
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The British colonies of New England, Middle, and Southern developed during the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of the competitive nature of the European explorers to colonize and obtain more land than the others. The New England colonies were built upon the objectives of religious freedom and economic prosperity. The population was consistently increasing as child birth doubled and life expectancy improved. They experienced long winters and short summers. The colonies were located nearby
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During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped creating a bridge from North America to Eurasia. 35,000 years ago This gave immigrants a chance to migrate over to the “New World”. Humans began to travel to America from Asia 33,000 - 8,000 B.C. This leads to the creation of the earliest civilizations in the Americas. Columbus’s Discovery 1492 He founded a “New World” that led to the colonization of people from Europe in America. The Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 This treaty between Spain and Portugal divided
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Activity 1: Cajun and Metis Music and Culture Hundreds of years ago, Native Americans inhabited the regions of North America. After many years, European explorers discovered the lands and began to colonize there. There were many interactions between the Natives and the Europeans. The Metis are a mixed-race group of people that resulted from the mating between European settlers and Native Americans. The Metis were often looked down upon since they did not belong in any specific category, and were
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The Columbian Exchange named after Christopher Columbus happened during the 15th to 17th centuries. The explorers, settlers, and natives exchanged technology, animals, plants, and diseases among the Old World countries and the New World. Because of their trades and exploration our country has helped become what it is today. It is a powerful, wealthy, independent nation that has given opportunity to others that settlers were able to find when they came here. We have been blessed with the technologies
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upon because he “Founded America”, this statement is true, but what he did after he found this great land is questionable. Before I read this text I believed that Columbus was a good man because no one ever spoke down on him, he was seen as a great explorer. But by reading this text my mind has completely changed, I view him as a liar and a torturer. He captured and killed
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