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	America
		Central America forms an isthmus running from northwest to southeast and narrowing to a strip of thirty miles in width at Panama; this isthmus extends from 15° to 8° north latitude, where it connects with the western coast of South America.
		The so-called aborigines of North America are, with the exception of the so-called Eskimo, generally regarded as belonging to one and the same branch of the human family, physically as well as ethnically.
		Sweden made an attempt at colonization, but, as the Swedish colony was limited to a very small fraction of the area of eastern North America and endured not more than seventeen years, it need not be mentioned here.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/america.html (8234 words)

	Encyclopedia: Swedish colonization of the Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas began with the arrival in America of Christopher Columbus in 1492.
		The Duchy of Courland was the smallest nation to colonize the Americas with a short-lived colony in Tobago from 1654 to 1659.
		Spanish colonization of the Americas began with the arrival in the Americas of Christopher Columbus in 1492.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swedish-colonization-of-the-Americas (1361 words)

	British colonization of the Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Colonies were established in North, Central and South America and in the Caribbean, and a protectorate was established in Hawaii.
		The British were one of the most important colonizers of the Americas and their American Empire came to rival the Spanish American colonies in extant.
		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Saint Vincent was colonized in 1762.
	hallencyclopedia.com /British_colonization_of_the_Americas (1728 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/History of North America
		Many natives of North America, as the Europeans found them, were semi-nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers; others were sedentary and agricultural civilizations.
		While some smaller powers like the Dutch and Swedish had minor holdings on the continent, the main land and most of the islands were divided between the Spanish, the French, and the English empires.
		Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the East Coast of America from Florida to presumably Newfoundland in 1524.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/History_of_North_America (285 words)

	New Sweden
		The first Swedish expedition to North America was launched in late 1637.
		The Swedish and Finnish settlers continued to enjoy a degree of local autonomy, having the right to their own militia, religion, court, and lands.
		This status lasted officially until the English conquest of the New Netherlands colony (October 1664) and continued unofficially until the area was included in William Penn's charter for Pennsylvania (1682).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sw/Swedish_colonization_of_the_Americas.html (375 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Colonizing nations generally dominate the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may also impose socio-cultural, religious and linguistic structures on the conquered population (see also cultural imperialism).
		Colonialism was often based on the ethnocentric belief that the morals and values of the colonizer were superior to those of the colonized; some observers link such beliefs to racism and pseudo-scientific theories dating to the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Colonialism was led by Portuguese and Spanish exploration of the Americas, and the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, India, and East Asia.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Colonialism (2126 words)

	Colonial America
		From 1493, when Christopher Columbus brought the lands of the Western Hemisphere to Europe's attention, throughout the 16th century, North America was a backwater of colonialism.
		Although it is a common myth in modern American society that the Puritans came to America seeking religious freedom, perhaps a more accurate term would be "religious domination." Though they fled from religious repression in England, they did not seek to establish toleration in America.
		The forces driving the colonies' history for the next eighty years would be overwhelmingly secular, although America would remain (and many parts of the nation remain to this day) a deeply religious nation.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/c/co/colonial_america.html (3494 words)

	Colonialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term also refers to a set of beliefs used to legitimize or promote this system, especially the belief that the mores of the colonizer are superior to those of the colonized.
		Advocates of colonialism argue that colonial rule benefits the colonized by developing the economic and political infrastructure necessary for modernization and democracy.
		Critics of the alleged abuses of economic and political advantages accruing to developed nations via globalised capitalism have referred to them as neocolonialism, and see them as a continuation of the domination and exploitation of ex-colonial countries, merely utilizing different means.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonialism (358 words)

	Colonization, Globalization, and Language Endangerment
		Sometimes, it is the colonists and colonizers who have, as in the case of the Norman French in England, or the Tutsi (formerly speakers of Nilotic languages) in Rwanda and Burundi, or the Peranakan Chinese in the Straights of Malacca.
		Settlement colonies of North America still differ from those of Latin America, plantation colonies of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean were not quite the same as those of the Pacific, and exploitation colonies of Africa were not quite the same as those of Asia.
		It is in some ways as old as colonization in its population genetics interpretation, to the extent that when a population relocates and/or dominates another, it more or less imposes a form of globalization by connecting the political and economic structure of the colony to that of their motherland.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/mufw_colonization.html (11280 words)

	Spanish colonization of the Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Treaty of Tordesillas was an attempt to solve the disputes with the Portuguese colonizers.
		The silver of America (especially the mines of Zacatecas and Potosí) went to pay the enormous debt brought by the wars against the Reformation led by the Spanish kings.
		Soon the exclusive of commerce between Europe and America was conceded to Seville (later to Cádiz).
	bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/sp/spanish_colonization_of_the_americas.html (1209 words)

	United States History - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Nearly all of the Africans enslaved and brought to America by this trade were natives of the western coastal rain forests and the inland forests of the Congo and Central Africa.
		The European success story in the Americas was achieved at horrendous expense for the millions of Native Americans who died and for the millions of Africans who were enslaved.
		British North America in the 18th century was a religiously and ethnically diverse string of settlements.
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		The colonists who came to the Americas knew that they were taking part in the founding of new societies, the success of which was not foreordained by any stretch of the imagination.
		Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the colonies of British North America periodically lived in fear of their conquest or annihilation by the French and their Indian allies, and throughout this period the colonists and their British governors and military protectors labored to establish defensive alliances with friendly or neutral Indian nations.
		He calls it "the peopling of British North America" -- a phrase, of course, that seemingly slights the presence of the Indians, though Bailyn's point is that these waves of European immigration dramatically increased the population density of North America and transformed the life of the continent.
	www.fiu.edu /~harveyb/colonialera.htm (3901 words)

	History of Latin America Summary
		Latin America refers to countries in the Americas where Latin-derived (Romance) languages are spoken; these countries generally lie south of the United States.
		Upon their arrival, most of Latin America was colonized, primarily by Spain and Portugal, and, to a lesser extent, by France.
		It was impossible for Latin America to break all ties with European nations with there ancestors at the head of the government and society, and a economy that was nowhere near to being self sufficient.
	www.bookrags.com /History_of_Latin_America (1176 words)

	Colonialism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dependency theorists such as Andre Gunder Frank, however, argue that colonialism actually leads to the net transfer of wealth from the colonized to the colonizer, and inhibits successful economic development.
		Indian writer and political activist Arundhati Roy said that debating the pros and cons of colonialism/imperialism "is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape".
		Critics of neocolonialism see neocolonialism as the continuation of the domination and exploitation of the same countries with different (and often the same) means.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Colonialism (347 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: America
		America was a part of that continent was dispelled only by Balboa's journey across the Isthmus in 1513.
		America been placed on a map published by Hylacomylus in the same year, whether to designate only that part of the discovery which was credited or the whole continent as far as
		Spanish colonization were spent in attempts to establish a modus vivendi with the aborigines and, like all epochs of that kind, proved disastrous to the weaker--namely, to the Indian.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01409c.htm (7987 words)

	Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective
		Problems arise when the ideology of the colonizers is adopted by the colonized peoples themselves, especially by the educated individuals who are more likely to be employed in positions of influence.
		In this way, economic and strategic exploitation were included in the concept of "colonialism." Colonialism, as formulated by Frank (1978:189 ff), may be regarded as a necessary precondition for capitalism, by channeling the accumulation of capital and by preventing the development of an autonomous economy within the controlled territories.
		In the 1720s, when the modern colonization of Greenland began, the Danes used the term "colony" as synonymous with mission and trade station, and this term continued in use until 1953 when Greenland was formally made an integral part of Denmark.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /HistoryCulture/petersen.html (6074 words)

	Wikinfo \| Colonial history of the United States
		From 1492, when Christopher Columbus brought the lands of the Western Hemisphere to the attention of a Europe that had long forgotten about them, throughout the 16th century, North America was a backwater of colonialism.
		Spain, the main colonial power of the day, focused its efforts on the despoilation of the gold-rich empires of southern Mexico (the Aztec) and of the Andes (the Inca).
		Little Portugal, which had in fact begun charting the far shores of the Atlantic Ocean before Spain began, was limited by the Treaty of Tordesillas to the easterly lands of Brazil.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Colonial_History_of_the_United_States (1218 words)

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		Immigration to the United States of America is the movement of non-residents to the United States, and has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the American history even though the foreign born have never been more than 16% of the population since about 1675.
		Given the distance of North America from Eurasia, most historical U.S. immigration was a risky venture, which inspired myths and dreams of prosperity and opportunity not found in the Old World.
		The Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg wrote a series of four novels describing one Swedish family's migration from Småland to Minnesota in the late 19th century, a destiny shared by almost one million people.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Immigration_to_the_United_States (9881 words)

	The American Testimony: Discovery and Colonization of the New World
		The first landing on the actual mainland of North America was made by Juan Ponce de Leon, who explored the eastern coastline of the Florida peninsula in 1513.
		In the northern reaches of America, a renewed quest for a Northwest Passage to the Orient was undertaken by French explorer Jacques Cartier.
		In America, the eight-year conflict was known as King George’s War, a series of small battles along the border between French Canada and the northern British colonies.
	www.history2u.com /book1_discovery.htm (10346 words)

	History of North America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Many natives of North America as the found them were semi-nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers; were sedentary and agricultural civilizations.
		After Christopher Columbus ' 1492 voyage the Spanish were the first to arrive to stay.
		Jacques Cartier made a series of voyages on of the French crown in 1534 and penetrated the St.
	www.freeglossary.com /History_of_North_America (636 words)

	Food & Nutrition Information
		Perhaps one of the major influences of food on history was the transfer of the potato and of maize to Europe from central America.
		The immigrants had little insight into the potential value of local food culture for their own survival or preferred health, let alone the ultimate value of the survival of the human species through drawing on the heterogeneity of plants usable for human food, the food cultures themselves and the knowledge that went with them.
		A major consequence of this colonization was the proud conquering of the new lands with deforestation and the turning of more and more land to grazing for meat production and to land for grain production.
	www.healthyeatingclub.com /APJCN/Volume1/vol1.2/wahlqvist.htm (3455 words)

	Colonialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Challenges in the archaeology of Native North America.
		They point to such former colonies as the United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore as examples of post-colonial success.
		Critics of neocolonialism see neocolonialism as the continuation of the domination and exploitation of the some countries with different (and often the same) means.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Colonialism (427 words)

	Evo Morales Has Plans for Bolivia by America Vera-Zavala
		The son of coca farmers, he was raised in the barren altiplano region, where he worked as a coca farmer and llama herder before rising to power as the national leader of the coca-growers union.
		I am sure that America would be better off without the United States and the IMF controlling all of its resources.
		America Vera-Zavala is a Swedish journalist who writes regularly on economics and participatory democracy.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /South_America/Evo_Morales_Plans.html (1397 words)

	Rxpress - English colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The British were one of the most important colonizers of the Americas and their American Empire came to rival the Spanish American colonies in extent.
		The English established colonies along the east coast of North America, from Newfoundland in the north, to as far as Florida in the south.
		The small part of the Hudson Bay drainage which is south of the 49th parallel went to the United States in 1818.
	www.rxpresspharmacy.com /wiki/index/British_colonization_of_the_Americas (1677 words)

	Dutch colonization of the Americas Summary
		During the 17th century, Dutch traders established trade posts and plantations throughout the Americas; actual colonization, with Dutch settling in the new lands was not as common as with settlements of other European nations.
		In 1664, English troops under the command of the Duke of York and Albany (later James II of England) attacked the New Netherland colony.
		Dutch colonization of Sint Maarten began in 1620 although the ownership of the island changed hands at least 16 times before 1816, when it was permanently split between France and the Netherlands.
	www.bookrags.com /Dutch_colonization_of_the_Americas (3100 words)

	Colonization
		In 1655 his success in external affairs varied greatly with a long dispute over Swedish colonization of the Delaware Valley he invaded Sweden and forced it to surrender.
		The French did not begin to colonize in America until the seventeenth century.
		The three main aims of French colonization in North America had been conversion of the Indians to Christianity, fur trading, keeping the English at bayy.
	www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu /coakhist/coloniz.html (2600 words)

	Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs: Public Policy: Law and Order in the Communities of Color and Political ...
		Every city in America is faced with diminishing tax bases and political decisions are increasingly governed by the considerations of megamalls, sport arenas and other tourist attractions.
		These discriminatory practices have been in place since the colonization of the Americas on five geographic fronts--the lands explored for economic reasons by the Dutch, the Spanish, the English, the French and the Portuguese.
		The historical discursive legacy of the Americas is rooted in the colonial documents of superiority and inferiority.
	www.hhh.umn.edu /centers/wilkins/guillermo_rojas_paper.html (4803 words)

	Colonization Home Page
		May be you notice that there's strange thing in colonization when you won every single battle or lose every single battle of current turn.
		Colonization High Scores with details about how they are Calculated.
		Germany may not have had any Colonies of its own in the Americas (since it was only a collection of competing kingdoms during the duration of the game 1492-1800) but a lot of German Colonists went to America plus the Hessian Soldiers.
	www.colonization.biz /col.htm (2227 words)

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