A.+Exploration,+Discovery,+Settlement

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**Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement** · Significant Events Leading to the Age of Exploration § The Crusades and Their Impact § Renaissance and Reformation (Luther, Calvin, Henry III/Anglicanism) || · Rise of Nation States § The Portuguese Background (Prince Henry, Da Gama) § Spanish Claims to the New World (Columbus, etc.) § French Claims (Verrazano, Quebec) § Dutch Claims (Hudson, Patroons) § English Claims || · The Commercial Revolution || · The Geographic Revolution || · Motives § Political and Religious Motives § Economic Reasons: Enclosure, Mercantilism, Joint Stock Companies § Social Motives || · Pre-Jamestown § Defeat of Spanish Armada (1588) § Early Efforts || · Jamestown - 1607 § Early Problems § The "Starving Time" § John Smith, John Rolfe, Pocahontas § Tobacco || · The Puritan Colonies § Early Problems § Pilgrims and Plymouth (1620) § Massachusetts Bay (1630) § John Winthrop - "City on a Hill" || · Early Political Institutions § Mayflower Compact § House of Burgesses § Town Meetings || · Spain and France · The English · The Columbian Exchange ||
 * **Europe in the Sixteenth Century**
 * **Europe** **in the Sixteenth Century**
 * **Europe** **in the Sixteenth Century**
 * **Europe** **in the Sixteenth Century**
 * **Early English Settlement**
 * **Early English Settlement**
 * **Early English Settlement**
 * **Early English Settlement**
 * **Early English Settlement**
 * **Relations with the Indians**