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When the Europeans arrived there were more than 300 Native American cultures in North America.
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The Native North American cultures did not have a written language. Instead, a groups history, legends, and myths were entrusted to memory and faithfuly past from generation to generation threw oral tradition.
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Christopher Columbus kept a journal on his four voyages to the americas.
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Thomkas Harriot an a writter faithfully capturee his areas resouces. He also got down the ways of life of the Native Americans.
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Many or the settlers in the 1600's were Puritans. They were a group of English Protestants who had sought to "purify" the Church of England and return to simpler ways of worshiping.
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The first permanent colony was established at Jamestown in 1607. Englished colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast.
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In 1634 William Wood of Massachusetts Bay Colony nothed that the Native Americans '' took the first ship they saw for walking the island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds.''
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The first book issued in North america was the Bay Psalm Book.
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The Dutch found Cape Town on the southern tip of South Africa.
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In the 1700's there was a burst in intellectual energy taking place in Europe that came to be known as the "Enlightenment".
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The Boston Newletter was the first American newspaper established.
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Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos.
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The French and Indian War was when France allied with a number of Native Americans to drive the British out of North America.
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The Boston tea Party marks a violent rejection of britians taxatrion Polocies.
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When Great Britain tried to tax the colonists to recover some of the money spent on the war.
