The Earliest Americans and the Age of Exploration
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- The first people to come to North America arrived in approximately 12,000 BCE.
- They spread across North America and can be classified into a variety of different groups with different lifestyles.
- The Age of Exploration is the period between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries during which European explorers traveled the world.
- The Age of Exploration was primarily led by Spain, Portugal, France, and Britain.
- The Age of Exploration was driven by a combination of desire for wealth, territory, and religious conversion.
- England eventually became the dominant power in North America.
- The 13 English colonies developed differently depending on the economic and social factors.
KEEP IN MIND . . .
The early development of these colonies affected the later history of the United States. Think about how the early circumstances of these colonies shaped their later history.
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