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1492
Columbus arrives in Western Hemisphere
IMPACT
The arrival of Christopher Columbus was the beginning of the conquest of America.
The spread of the diseases that Europeans carried with them (smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, etc.) produced a collapse of the American population that had a great impact on death. Likewise, diseases of America came, such as the dreaded syphilis (which decimated the European population since Spanish possessions in Italy in 1494).
The languages that were mandatory were the Spanish and Portuguese languages. -
Jamestown founded
1st permanent English colony in North America established at Jamestown in 1607 motive was wealth, By 1624 Jamestown becomes a royal colony. -
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Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Indian attacks in Virginia end hopes of becoming a bi-racial society. These wars ended up creating reservations for each tribe, and allowed them hunting rights outside their reservations. It established that all the Indian rulers were equal, with the provision that the "Queen of Podunk" was now owed the subjection of several scattered groups of Indians -
Tobacco made a profitable crop by John Rolfe
John Rolfe introduced the cultivation of tobacco
Tobacco provided the colony with a “cash crop” and led to the rise of the plantation system. -
First group of blacks brought to Virginia
Many influential figures demanded the need to send African slaves to the Indies, since according to them they were of the strongest physique and complexion, proper for the toughest jobs, such as agriculture and mining, in addition to which they had already proven themselves slaves centuries ago.
