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Who: Explorers, Cartographers, Ship Builders
What: A term used to describe period of renewed interest in classical ideas that had long been lost to Western Europe
When: 15th-17 Centuries
Where: Europe
So What: Renaissance-era scholars and inventors revolutionized sea travel, thus enabling Europeans to conquer and colonized the rest of the world. |
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Who: Historian Alfred W. Crosby Jr.
What: A phrase used to describe the worldwide redistribution of plants, animals, and diseases that resulted from contact between Europe and the Americas
When: Begins in 1492
Where: Atlantic Basin
So What: Diseases kill off Indians, making them relatively easy to conquer, while new food revolutionized the European diet. |
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Who: The great tobacco planters dominated it.
What: The first representative assembly in British North America
When: est. 1619
Where: Jamestown, Virginia
So What: It marks the start of a strong tradition of representative government in the colonies. |
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Who: Edmund Burke
What: A phrase used to describe the lax enforcement of some of Britain’s navigation acts.
When: 1713-1765
Where: The British Empire
So What: It enabled prosperity in the empire, and gave colonists a sense of autonomy. |
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Who: Metacomet’s alliance vs Puritans
What: An especially brutal war in which 3000 natives and 600 colonists lost their lives
When: 1675-1676
Where: New England
So What: The war devastated the Natives, many of whom were sold into slavery, and led puritans to question their own “purity”. |
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Who: British General John Burgoyne vs American General Horatio Gates
What: The first major American military victory over a regular British army
Where: New York
When: September-October 1777
So What: The battle of Saratoga turned a colonial rebellion into an international war by convincing the French to enter the war of the side of the Americas. |
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