What made the Middle Colonies a good place to settle? What type of government did the Rhode Island colony have? What does a colony usually provide for its ruling country? What were the original thirteen colonies? What was the main goal of the French in colonizing the Americas?
What were the push-and-pull factors for immigrants coming to the Middle colonies from 1660 - 1750? What was the role of the Bantu Education Act? What type of animals did the Bantu hunt? What is Migration Period art? What part of Africa was involved in the slave trade?
What did Strabo do for geography? Strabo and Geography Strabo was a Greek geographer and historian who also studied philosophy at the Aristotelian school in Rome. He was a traveling observer of civilizations, and his writings blend history and geography to provide his philosophical perspective on li...
Chapter 1. geography, people and language. Think and talk. Do you know the full name of Britain? Do you know the geographical features of this country? Do you know its major cities, London, Ed…
This caused the mass emigration in the 1660s of many Quakers to the colonies of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. (Ironically, with the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1662, many Puritans fled England and settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut.) Roman Saturnalia The reason for ...
France’s “imperialism” has been cultural. Whether in its former colonies, yet most importantly in this case, at home. No other country has philosophized, legitimized and sacralized its way of living like France, so much so that even in the “White” Western world, people stereotype the...
Charters have a history dating back to monarchical times. In 1215, the earliest famous example of a charter was theMagna Carta, which established the rights of the people of England.Colonial chartersoccurred in the 16th and 17th centuries and established the Thirteen Colonies of America. Today,...
the Venable family travels from North Caroline to Kentucky to start a new life. But life isn’t necessarily easier – there are Indians, a man called Frohawk who claims rights to their land, and the unknown future of the colonies as they struggle against British rule. A great portrait of...
The answer: intercept the gold and silver that Spanish ships were bringing home from its New World colonies. Author David Grann is able to tell not only this larger story but also to resurrect one of the most astonishing seafaring events of the time. A ship named “The Wager” was to be...
Originally "biodiversity" was only intended as a shorthand for "biological diver- sity"; by the time the proceedings of the forum were published as an edited book (Wilson 1988), the new term had been promoted to become its title. The BioDiversity forum was held shortly after the founding ...