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Explorers returned to their homelands with stories and drawings of the peoples of the Pacific (often with theatrical embellishments) that fascinated the royal courts and the people on the streets of Europe. The stories of the European visitors and the first encounters with sailors became part of the histories of the First Nations, passed on orally, with similar dramatic emphasis. The contact was between seafaring peoples who lived with the ocean in their daily lives and travelled aboard specialized vessels – the First Nations peoples in canoes and the visitors in sailing ships. There were similarities and vast differences that filled both sides with questions.
Studies of the period of contact during the 18th century suggest that it was a time of exchanges, trade, and communication, due to the fact that the explorers had no interest in erecting settlements and displacing local peoples. This is in sharp contrast to the years that followed, when fur trading outposts, agricultural pioneers, and religious missionaries disrupted First Nations relationships to their lands and families. However, disease traveled with the explorers, and in 1782, the first of a number of smallpox epidemics hit the Coast Salish community, killing two thirds of the Stó:l? population in a matter of weeks.
The meeting of the coastal peoples of the Pacific Northwest and the explorers from Europe was obviously noteworthy and memorable for both sides. For Europe, it was the start of access to new resources and new lands. The potential to establish settlements and gain power over new people lay ahead. For the First Nations, it was the start of access to new tools and material wealth, and then to new diseases. The coming century would bring a new religion and new rulers that alienated them from their identity and traditions.
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Eisenhower himself gave three reasons not to push on to Berlin:
His armies were already well beyond the line agreed upon with the Soviets for the Western occupation zones. He did not want to offend Stalin and knew that any added territory taken would be handed over to Soviet control.
He had some concerns about his troops meeting Soviet troops if both were pursuing the same goal.
Berlin was only a political objective, not a military objective, General Eisenhower said.
It also was a factor that one of Eisenhower's field commanders had estimated that for US troops to take Berlin could cost as many as 100,000 casualties. The Soviet armies bore the cost. 30,000 Soviet soldiers died in the Battle of Berlin.
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It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west.The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act of 1862.
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The Indian Ocean trading network fostered the growth of states. ... In key places along important trade routes, merchants set up diasporic communities where they introduced their own cultural traditions into the indigenous cultures and, in turn, indigenous cultures influenced merchant cultures.
