SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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wealth
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religious conversion
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spread disease
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economic opportunity
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Detailed explanation-1: -Overview. Historians generally recognize three motives for European exploration and colonization in the New World: God, gold, and glory.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which was not a motivation for European exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? Ottoman control of the Silk Road.
Detailed explanation-3: -Smallpox arrived on Hispaniola by 1519 and soon spread to mainland Central America and beyond. Along with measles, influenza, chickenpox, bubonic plague, typhus, scarlet fever, pneumonia and malaria, smallpox spelled disaster for Native Americans, who lacked immunity to such diseases.
Detailed explanation-4: -Perhaps the single greatest impact of European colonization on the North American environment was the introduction of disease. Microbes to which native inhabitants had no immunity caused sickness and death everywhere Europeans settled.