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Plymouth, a Colony to be Remembered In the 1600’s, England was settling in what is now known as North America. They came for political and economical reasons with the intent to colonize. England had two settlements in the New World, Plymouth and Jamestown, that were particularly successful in their own ways. But, overall, which one was more successful? If success means achieving the goal they had set before them, than Plymouth was the more successful colony because of the choice of settlers who…

Though the meaning of “America” has changed over the years, “America” once meant the pursuit of a simplistic yet unique dream. Walt Whitman demonstrates this in section 10 of his “Song of Myself” poem. In this section, he takes on the identity of multiple American people. Among these are a rugged mountain man, the captain of a Yankee clipper ship, the viewer of a marriage between a trapper and a Native American, and one who shelters a runaway slave. These people are all different, which serves…

In this essay, I will be summarizing James Fujitani's argument regarding the rejection of the Ming with the Portuguese effort to establish diplomatic relations in 1519. Back in 1517, the Portuguese fleet arrived off the coast of Guangzhou. This was a great moment of symbolic importance to the Portuguese, with making the first official contact between the East Asia and Europe of the early modern period. However, just a few years later, in 1521, these relations broke down by many false rumor…

The American dream We travelled on a wagon and boarded a ship to America in England. I am here with my grandmother, my mom, my dad and my two younger brothers. We wanted to come to the USA because we were promised a better life in the USA and my grandparents on my mother’s side lives there. They promised us freedom, happiness and wealth in the USA. My family and I are only allowed a small suitcase, so we had to leave many of our favorite things behind. The ship is really overcrowded and it…

Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Heathen” was founded and in 1793 William Carey and John Thomas sailed to India. Following Carey’s model of missionary society a number of missionary societies emerged in England, Europe and America that sent their missionaries to Asia, Africa and to different places. In England the London Missionary Society (LMS) (1795), Netherland’s Missionary Society (NMS) (1798), Church Missionary Society (CMS) (1799), Religious Tract Society…

there way expanding their territory, converting people into their culture , it gained back wealth and power to compete with the ottoman Empire. Also influencing the renaissance people to discover new forms of art and technology. In documents 1 and 7 they are both showing example of Economics during the European age of exploration. The two documents displayed how in the era, economy has expanded and new trading routes…

continent. Ships from Spain, England, and France sailed westward in search for the Northwest Passage, and though the Europeans were unable to expand their riches with trade, they were able to expand their riches through conquering civilizations in the Americas. Mercantilism was the dominating economic idea of the time,…

their religion to secure the afterlife. During this period the colonisation of South America took place. Christopher Columbus’s voyages, Spain was the first European rule to settle and colonize the area, from North America and the Caribbean to the southern tip of South America. Spanish cities were established as early as 1496 with Santo Domingo in today’s Dominican Republic. Due to the colonisation of South America the Columbian exchange was in action. The Columbian exchange was an extensive…

Lynus So P. 4 How do we respond to the questions; “Is America the greatest country?”, “What is it like to live in America?”. Is it, “liberty and freedom” or “America gives me opportunities and chances for my life”? Is it the same response from the homeless and hungry? What do they say? What is liberty and freedom? Perhaps it simply means, living in America, we take responsibility for helping each other. They cower in the streets of cities like Seattle, watching many people pass by wearing fancy…

A critique on post-revolutionary America, Rip Van Winkle wakes up twenty years in the future and discovers exactly what he once knew, his house, town, and faces aged. However, America has usurped the British troops and overthrown the government, which Rip discovers as he explores his town after his journey through time. Scholars claim that the intent in subtly criticize the new American power, and demonstrate through Rip that pre-revolution America was not what history suggests (Pearce 1).…