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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America and was established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.
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Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey was the inventor of the telescope. In 1608, Lippershey laid claim to a device that could magnify objects three times. His telescope had a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective lens.
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this was a conflict fought in Central Europe, which estimates of total military and civilian deaths range from 4 to 8 million, the vast majority from disease or starvation happened during this. In some areas of Germany, it has been suggested up to 60% of the population had died.
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The first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown
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this was a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England.
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The cause of the Pequot War was the struggle to control trade. English efforts were to break the Dutch Pequot control of the fur and wampum trade, while the Pequot attempted to maintain their political and economic dominance in the region.
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Around the time English settlers were putting down roots in places like Virginia and Massachusetts, there was another colony taking shape in what is now New York. So, four English ships landed in New Amsterdam and demanded that New Netherland surrender.
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this was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.