The colonial period,

reasons of colonisation,
first European settlers

2A4 Karolina Milosova

The colonial period
British empire (Commonwealth)

● 1169 – conquest of Ireland

● Henry VII of England
● Henry VIII – warships with cannons
● Strategic business interest, obtaining mineral wealth,
teaching local people and replacing Europeans
● Distribution of colonizations
● Around 1960 - decolonization
 United States of America

• 30-10 thousand years ago came Indians from Asia

• Vikings
• Spanish, British, the French, the Dutch, Swedes,
Russians
• 1497 – John Cabot
• 1607 – Jamestown
• Spanish made first colonies
First European
settlers
 Walter Raleigh

• writer, poet, soldier, courtier and traveler

• promoted the colonization of North America
• 1585 & 1587 - the expeditions were
unsuccessful
• Elizabeth I
„whoever commands the sea, commands the
trade; whosoever commands the trade of the
world commands the riches of the world, and
consequently the world itself.“
- Walter Raleigh
 The Pilgrim Fathers
• settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent colony in New England
• Leaving England because of religious freedom
• An effort to preserve their English cultural identity
• Mayflower
The Quakers

• religious movement, founded by George

Fox
• the Protestant Church considered them
heretics
• Quakers run away to America
 Resources
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