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Columbian Exchange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwMcRljS3SM
Christopher Columbus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmRFcXrWKCY

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Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa. When he was older he became an Italian navigator. He did many voyages throughout his life. His first voyage was when he tried to discover a new route to Asia in 1492. He went on to have 3 more voyages after that. When he tried to discover a new route to Asia, he discovered America.

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In most of the colonies, they would elect assemblies that would create laws for their colony. Some of the assemblies were called House of Burgesses, House of Delegates and Assembly of Freemen. The House of Burgesses was in the Virginia colony, the House of Delegates was in the Maryland colony, and the Assembly of Freemen was also in the Maryland colony.

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The Mayflower Compact was an agreement that the Pilgrims wrote and sign that described how they would govern themselves in Massachusetts' colony. They wrote and signed this because they were leaving England to escape religious persecution from the Church of England. They wanted to purify the church by making services simpler and doing away with ranks of authority.

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Reasons for colonial settlement in the English colonies

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Reasons for colonial settlement in the English colonies

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Some reasons for the Europeans to settle in the colonies were religious freedom, political freedom, valuable resources and freedom of equality. Some of the places they went to were Jamestown and Plymouth. Plymouth was were the Pilgrims landed and Jamestown was where John Smith landed. The Pilgrims were escaping religious persecution. While John Smith came to find gold and valuable resources.

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Some motivations for European settlers to settle in the Americas were to spread their beliefs, to gain new resources, and to get fame for discovering a new route to "Asia." Obviously they didn't discover a new route to Asia, but what they did discover was America. When they discovered America they discovered different things such as: gold, bananas, potatoes livestock, and other foods.

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The Columbian exchange was the exchange of crops, people, beliefs, diseases and technology. This was after Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492. Somethings that were exchanged were cows, oxen, horses, donkeys, corn/maize, smallpox, the flu, and slavery. When diseases were spread throughout the new world, many people died due to not being exposed to these diseases.

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http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/all-about-christopher-columbus-1451-1506
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_government_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies

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Beringia is a land bridge connecting North America and Asia. It was discovered about 30,000 years ago. This land bridge was discovered by Asian hunters that were following their food source, mammoths. The Asian hunters kept following the mammoths further eastward. As the Asian hunters moved eastward they settled in different area of North and South America.