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Bookmark or Share- Was the colonization of the Americas inevitable? - History ForumConquistadors running wild, and not an absolute royal government that exerted central power. (Cortes defied his governor's order but, hey, his rebellion made him one of the richest Spanish people in the 16th century. Taylor's Colonial America criticizes how effective the Spanish Crown was at the time.) After the silver fleets arrived back from ...
- Romance in the 1700s. - History ForumI found some more specific information about marriage in America in 'Puritans at Play, Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New england' by Bruce C. Daniels. He says: "First marriages usually took place between young adults in their mid-twenties and late twenties and were preceded by discussions and agreements between the parents of the couple.
- Why did Britain not simply give the American colonies representation ...2. Given the vast size of the American colonies, a population explosion could cause colonial representation to dwarf the representation of the mother country. For example, the American population at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War was just under 3 million. The population of Great Britain in 1750 (closest year I could find) was about 6.5 ...
- Was the Qing empire a colonial power? | History ForumThe evil Western colonial powers found such ritual repugnant: so much so that the holier-than-thou Western colonial authorities refused to extradite ethnic Chinese accused of political crime by the Q regime within Western concessions/colonies such as Hongkong to the Q regime lest such individuals would each die a living death by a thousand cuts.
- Was sugarcane grown in Colonial America? - History ForumSugarcane was the staple plantation crop throughout the Caribbean & Latin America ever since the earliest colonial settlements, having arrived with Columbus’ second voyage. Sugar was already being imported to Europe in large quantities by the early years of the 16th century.
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