As early as the 1640s Swedish boat builders fabricated several small craft on the Delaware River in their short-lived New Sweden colony, but large-scale shipbuilding started when William Penn (1644-1718)<span> settled his great proprietary grant of Pennsylvania between 1681-1682 with skilled Quaker artisans and maritime merchants escaping the religious persecution (sufferings) in old Britain and seeking economic opportunity in the New World. In fact, six years before he founded Philadelphia, Penn had helped shipwright </span>James West (d. 1701)<span> develop a small shipyard in 1676 along the Delaware Riverfront in what later became Vine Street in the city of Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Penn recruited Welsh, Irish, Scot and English Quaker craftsmen who were involved in shipbuilding in Bristol, England, and more fully along the Thames River, already by 1682 a great center of ship construction and merchant houses. Indeed the Southwark section of London’s Thames riverfront soon gave rise to the Southwark shipbuilding and merchant community along the Delaware riverfront of Philadelphia. When the Philadelphia riverfront became too crowded with merchant docks and buildings for establishment of shipyards, many shipwrights moved a few miles upriver to the Kensington neighborhood that soon rivaled Southwark as a shipbuilding center on the Delaware River.</span>
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im not sure if this was the answer you were looking for but
It was a turning point because Europeans discovered land many never knew existed. This also effected the indigenous people of the discovered land. It made the western Nations the strongest ones in the world (not counting the Ming Dynasty). It also started the slight downfall of the Ottoman Empire because it couldn't colonize, and many nations that could get to the "New World" could colonize making their profit better than some who couldn't. Another reason is the new things they can trade now back to the other countries who couldn't colonize making them make the decision to either buy the goods or to colonize themselves so they can also get a piece of the new products. Lastly it also was when the slave trade began
Probably make this shorter but this is all of the reasons i can think of
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A naval base in the central pacific
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