Short excerpt from a history book summarizes the achievements of colonization in ancient Greece.

Follow the early colonization of Florida. From explorers to settlers to trades between England and Spain, and finally to the emergence of the American territory of Florida.

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Although settlements by other northern European countries are mentioned, the primary focus of this article is on English settlements and the types of immigrants who came to the New World from England.

For centuries, Indigenous people's diets were totally based on what could be harvested locally. Then white settlers arrived from Europe. Native people pass down information - including food traditions - from one generation to the next...

Read about the slave trade and use of slaves in agriculture and mining in Spanish America in the New World. Find out why it was expedient to use African slaves.

Spanish culture had a great impact on the economy, politics, and even geography of the Southwest, California, and Mexico. Read about the Spanish settlements and the structure of the social classes that left an impact the continues even...

Understand why the English saw opportunity in making settlements in the New World. After the stumbles in Newfoundland and Roanoke Island, read about the ultimately successful founding of Jamestown Colony.

General information about the ascaris lumbricoides, including: etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, general gross description, general microscopic description, and clinical correlation.

Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in European history from Greek and Phoenician colonization up to the 20th century.

Read about James Forten's opposition to Paul Cuffe's American Colonization Society, which sought to recruit African-Americans to emigrate to Africa in the early 19th century. In addition, this site provides a link to the text of Forten's...

Because of Hawaii's isolation, endemic species evolved in their own unique way. With the arrival of foreigners and colonization, new species were introduced to the islands. The result being a crisis within the Hawaiian ecosystem,...

After reading about the functions and jobs of a healthy colon and rectum, read about what happens when these parts of the human body become afflicted with cancer.

John Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was delivered as a sermon aboard the Arabella, as the Puritans approached their destination of Massachusetts Bay in 1630. The speech spells out his vision of the society they hoped to create...

These activities encourage students to explore the 'brave new world' of The Tempest in light of thought-provoking texts on early modern colonization. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links for extended reading,...

Discusses the groups of people who settled in Texas in the mid-1800s.

Describes the role slavery played in Texas in the mid-1800s, and the cotton plantations' role in the Texas economy.

Outlines the agricultural differences between the Upper and Lower South of Texas prior to the Civil War.

Describes the role Texas played in trading food crops in the mid-1800s.

Discusses where different southern states stood on the issue of secession prior to the Civil War.

A brief introduction to an era of European colonization known as the scramble for Africa.

This site provides the text to the several colonization laws dealing with the colonization of Texas primarily by Americans.

A map showing the European colonization of the African continent before and after the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish...

Map of Northwestern Africa, subtitled "French Colonization." This map shows the Barbary States of Morocco, Algeria, and a portion of Ottoman controlled Tripoli. The map is color-coded to show the progression of French occupation in...