The Europeans had guns and the natives had sticks and rocks.
The conjugation of the verb "design" to "designed", without any auxiliary verb such as "have" or "do", shows the use of the 'simple past" tense (also known as preterite), whose principal function is to place a completed action or situation in a moment before "now".
What tense is the underlined verb in the sentence? The architect designed a daring structure.
D. Past
Shakespeare's plays are all about questioning authority: kings are deposed; bad people (Iago) triump over good ones (Cassio); your parents don't always know best (the behaviour of the parents in Romeo and Juliet is the cause of all the trouble).
In the Middle Ages people had a general sense that God was in his heaven, and all was right with the world. In the Renaissance people started to ask if that was true.
Shakespeare is always asking difficult questions, which is a very Renaissance thing to do. And he never makes any direct reference to Christian faith in any of his plays:- religious doubt was also a very Renaissance characteristic.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
It seems that there is no question here. Just a statement.
What is your question? What do you want to know?
What we can do is comment on the following.
Here you are talking about the North American Plate. Indeed is the second in size and consists of continental crust and oceanic crust. The Continental Crust is made up of most of North America, Cuba, and the Bahamas, and parts of Serbia, Iceland, and Greenland.
The North American size is 75,900,000 Square kilometers. The largest plate is the Pacific Plate. Its size is 103,300,000 Square kilometers.. The third-largest plate on planet Earth is the Euroasian Plate. Its size is 67,800,000 Square kilometers.