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Aside from the differences in the motives of settlement between the two colonies, the labor system from which the two colonies operated also sets them apart. The Virginia Company of England was responsible for "the first introduction of Negro slaves into Virgina" (McClellan, 43). At the same time, the Dutch claimed the Delaware, the Hudson, and the Connecticut River valleys (Murin, 53); with such strongholds, the Dutch West India Company controlled much of the slave trades in the Americas. When the Jamestown colony was established in the early sixteen teens, Dutch ships unloaded their cargos of Negroes to the colonists (McClellan, 42). Initially, these African were not considered as slaves but rather as indentured servants, as they were listed in the 1623 census count. They were simply considered as new settlers, who happened to be of African decent, and they worked for a period to pay for their passage to the new world. However, as time went on Virginia increasingly fell behind in satisfying the labor needs of the colony with Indians and indentured servants, and enacted the actual statutory recognition of slavery in Virginia in 1661. On the other hand, the Plymouth colony resorted to neither indentured servants nor slavery, they did it simply to keep outsiders from contaminating their religion (Murrin, 72). .
The two colonies share many similarities when it comes to their economic life, governing system, and certain main characteristics. When both groups of settlers landed in the new world, they lacked the agricultural expertise necessary to survive, had a very difficult time during their initial stage of settlement and had to resort to the assistance local Native American. The Jamestown settlement had too many gentlemen and specialized craftsmen, one of which is a perfumer. These so-called gentlemen considered farming beneath their dignity and simply refused to work on the land (Murrin 59).
Early culture There are many accomplishments that I find remarkable from earlier cultures. ... The woven baskets for gathering, all were technological advances and advantages for earlier peoples. ... In 1200 BC, The Olmec's built the first American civilization. Other emerging civilizations included the Maya's, Aztecs, and Inca's. ... Along with the creation of architecture was the first American language. ...
Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). ... Apart from the demise of the political ideologies described earlier, Huntington gives six specific reasons for civilizational identity. ... This occurs especially when people become impotent in the face of overwhelming military might, as in the case of when the Middle East co...
In the late 1400's and early 1500's, Europeans began spreading their influence and interacting with communities in the New World. In the New World, Native Americans had long been developing society and tools at their own pace. ... The methods of food collection and production also varied between the Europeans and the Native Americans, due to the underdeveloped material culture in the Americas. ... A surplus can lead to a larger population and eventually the safety net for civilizations to take risks, Europeans having this advantage led to even more advances in tool development that t...
She also describes the devastation that was brought upon the Indian populations by the early European settlers of American and Mexico. ... Although current historical references and works now seem to give a fairly accurate portrayal of the injustices done to the Indians, I remember earlier school texts referring to the Indians as primitive savages who were eventually educated and brought the benefits of civilization. I remember reading of the massacres perpetrated by the Indians against the early western settlers, and of how Indians attacked and burned villages during the early colonization ...
Artifacts that my be crude stone scrapers and choppers found at Lewisville, Texas, and other scattered sites throughout North and South America have been dated by their surroundings as early as 25000 to 35000 years ago. ... But of course this environmental influence was affected by the gradually developing sophistication of these early Americans. ... In hunting practices, and most living habits, the very early Americans had little reason to change from the ways of their northern forebears. ... Amid such plenty, the early Americans prospered and spread over the continent. ... The shift in the e...
During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Another impact on both the Native Americans and the Europeans was the sharing of native crops to each other. ... The horse highly effected the lives of the Native Americans by improving their hunting abilities. ... Europeans unknowingly brought with them many diseases that eventually plagues the Native Americans. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their ci...
The expansionism of the late nineteenth-century and the early twentieth-century is simply a continuation of past expansionism. ... Part of this novel explains that "The largest liberty, the purest Christianity, the highest civilization... will spread itself over the earth." ... G) Like early Americans, Americans of the late nineteenth-century also expanded for economic reasons. ... America wanted Texas as a state. ... F) Expansionism was clearly a driving factor throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ...
Early Latin American writers, such as Jorge Borges and Octavio Paz, set the precedent for the writers of the "Boom."7 The novels of the "Boom" tend to have complex narrative structures, linguistic experimentation, and a rejection of typical, moral upper middle class values and social traditions. ... Most importantly, with the emergence of the "Boom" writers of the 60s to the early 80s, three common conflicts developed in Latin American literature: good vs. evil, nature vs. urban progress, and civilization vs. barbarism. ... Early in the twentieth century, U.S. leaders urged the expansion of...
The idea that the historical mounds were produced by early Native Americans was met with much criticism for hundreds of years. ... Accepting the theory of the mounds would reveal that the Native Americans had the standard for a civilization. ... Instead, the European settlers would have seized the land from of a flourishing civilization. ... The Native Americans would no longer appear as primitive as first believed and they would not look far behind the European civilizations. Americans of the nineteenth century intensely resisted the idea the early American Indians were the creative geni...
