New Worlds For All

“New Worlds for All”

  • europeans colonized a “new world” in north america
    • extracted resources
    • eventually made new “neo-european” colonial societies
  • columbian exchange and colonialism transformed north america
    • especially with trade and diseases
    • remade native environments, economies, societies, and politics
    • a “native new world”, often before significant european settlement

Spanish Colonies in North America, 1530 - 1625

  • a few permanent outposts north of Mexico
  • small, isolated from centers of power

Europe Invades North America, Late 16th Century

  • spains rival emerge, mid-late 1500s
  • first, resource extraction
    • fishing/whaling
    • trade with native people
    • piracy against spain
  • later, settler colonialism
    • gradual rise of permanent european settlements
    • seizing native land, displacing native people

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