The reason why English is spoken in so many places worldwide even though England is so small, is because England once had that greatest (largest and most extensive) empire in the world, meaning that English customs and language were spread to most of its colonies, including the United States.
Mississippian Horticulture When Europeans first began to arrive in North America in about 1500, Native Americans in the Southeast were acquiring most of their food through agriculture, supplemented by hunting and gathering wild foods