<span>"A king was whoever could act like one and be recognized by his fellows as one, and Germanic tribes tended to elect their kings and to bind them to respect the ancient customs of the tribe. Thus the basic political and economic unit was the most local. For much of Northern Europe and England, it was the Manor, made up of 50 to 250 people, a thousand acres or only a few hundred. "</span>
It depends on your perspective. To the Native Americans, it was the beginning of an end. Their lives will be changed forever by their contact with the fur traders, soldiers, and missionaries that follow in the wake of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Certainly the changes will be gradual, but changes none the less.
Before the demands of free trade, it was "the British" who held a monopoly on Chinese trade, since they had developed trade routes with each other over the course of hundreds of years.
Manifest destiny was a belief that many Americans had that we should expand and control the land between the atlantic ocean and the pacific ocean. they believed it was our destiny to control this land eventually people believed we should spread the idea of manifest destiny world wide
