In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean, unlocking what Europeans quickly came to call the ‘New World’. Columbus ‘found’ a land with around two million inhabitants. He thought he had found a new route to the East, so he mistakenly called these people ‘Indians’. Within a hundred years, Europeans were trying to settle in the Americas. With Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the south, English explorers focused on North America.
This lesson examines what happened between early English settlers and Native Americans in North America. Using primary source evidence you will investigate what the early contact was like. Were the Native Americans savage and vicious hosts? Were the Europeans unreasonable and unfair? Or did they all just get along fine? You need to find out what happened.
Unlike revolutions in other Latin American countries, Haiti’s fight for freedom was "carried out by slaves," since this Revolution began (and ended, in many ways) with a slave revolt.
c. Women experienced the feeling of a glass ceiling.
Weapons in WW1 were being mass produced and of a greater quality than those of wars before. Barbed wire, airplanes, poisonous gas, submarines etc were introduced which revolutionized war today. Trench warfare was countered and is no longer used to fight.
The Treaty of Versailles and the fourteen points were presented as peace making treaties after WW1 and neither were signed by the US
