The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
Europeans onward, but they realized that the desert route would never become economic or even safe because the Berber middlemen ...
we know best, but he was just one of many who freighted sugar from the Atlantic islands to western Europe. Of the Atlantic islan ...
that took place in Europe and Africa, they remained essentially frozen in time for thousands of years. When they were rediscover ...
Columbus set out for Spain. In his three-month visit, he had already set precedents—hostilities with the natives, establishment ...
Indians. The two aims of policy were almost immediately in collision. Exploiting the natives was usually easy and sometimes prof ...
are still acting like ravening beasts, killing, terrorizing, afflicting, tortur- ing, and destroying the native peoples, doing a ...
1500s, “It is as safe to loose a stallion among a herd of mares as to let a friar out among the Indian women.” They were often c ...
lators immediately (and wisely) fled. Without them, the Spaniards were essentially blind on an unknown shore. Using their horses ...
time. He even lent money to the king. Perhaps to get rid of him, the king sent him off to “conquer, pacify, and people” La Flori ...
women to cover their breasts, so a local market grew for textiles. Indians, often driven by fear of the murderous human predator ...
Opechancanough, who reputedly led the revolt against the later English colonists at Jamestown. That act was far in the future, b ...
nization of La Florida as part of that cost; it was determined to maintain the security of the route and to prevent others from ...
chapter 4 Fish, Fur, and Piracy C enturies before Columbus’s voyage to the Caribbean, Vikings had sailed across the northern oce ...
The challenge fishermen faced in servicing this market was daunting: the little boats they had at the beginning of the fifteenth ...
As W. J. Eccles has pointed out, the French government initially saw the fur trade as a means to finance the Catholic missions t ...
Verrazzano set out in 1524 toward what he, like Columbus, thought was Asia. He hit the North American continent far to the north ...
the tops of cliffs, they lowered in woven baskets the goods they were willing to swap. Verrazzano’s men, standing in the ship’s ...
almost 1,000 miles up the Saint Lawrence until he reached the rapids at the site of modern Montreal. Where, Cartier asked every ...
ardy. If any foreign power could establish a base on the Atlantic coast—that is, along the route the treasure fleet had to take ...
the neighboring Timucuan Indians, who, in return, began to attack them. Dispirited, they decided that they should give up and re ...
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