It is unique because Native Americans were the original inhabitants of the Americas and experienced all the stages of its settlement by Europeans since the first colony in the seventeenth century and ending with the completion of the development of the western borders by the end of the nineteenth century. ... At the same time, Native Americans, although they were deprived of their ancestral lands during the nineteenth century, survived and were able to establish themselves in their political and economic rights, maintained their national identity and culture in spite of the invasion of modern...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although few histories of the European settlements in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have acknowledged it, women played a key role in the development of the North American colonies. ... They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeenth-century standards. ...

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Little is known of the Ovimbundu prior to the seventeenth century, due to the fact that the Portuguese made little effort at recording the background of any of the indigenous ethnic groups of Angola, but were more interested in recording their own history. ... By the eighteenth century the Ovimbundu had established twenty-two kingdoms. ... The Portuguese conquered the Ovimbundu in the late nineteenth century (Collelo). ... By the middle of the sixteenth century, the Portuguese traders were giving favorable attention to the ngola, which angered the Bakongo, who sent an army to defeat the ng...

• Word Count: 1582
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dryden and Davenant's changes to Shakespeare's original continued to influence the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century critics. Eighteenth-century commentaries on Caliban still treated him as a monster, but they focused on new issues. ... From the late eighteenth century commentators began to associate The Tempest's plot, language and characters with Europe's exploration and colonization of America. ... "Colonial metaphors" was a trend contemporaneous to the American school and flourished in the twentieth century outside the English-speaking nations. ... The view prevalent ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate