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While Marco Polo and the Crusades were traveling new ideas spread throughout Europe that opened the way for the Renaissance period to begin (Ignitia.com Editors). -
"Three ships dropped an anchor in the New World and changed the course of history" (Ignitia.com Editors). -
In order to understand what brought the Pilgrims to America, you have to go back to Wittenburg, Germany (Ignitia.com Editors). Where Martin Luther challenged the Roman Catholic Church by posting his Ninety-five Theses for debate (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The majority of The Church of England belonged to the people of Europe (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The Golden Hind was the ship drake used to sail the Spanish Lake now known as the pacific ocean (Ignitia.com Editors). "Drake reasoned that he could follow Magellan's route to surprise the Spanish and make great conquests" (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Philip was upset with the English pirates who constantly raided Spanish ships and settlements so he sent the Spanish Armada to end the raids and the Armada was defeated by the English navy and had to retreat (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Spring had finally come to New England. The people rose with the coming of warm sunshine and realized that they had survived their first winter (Ignitia.com Editors). One day, a stranger came to town a tall Indian, dressed in buckskins with only his bow and arrow, and marched down the street to the meetinghouse (Ignitia.com Editors). " "Welcome," said the stranger in English. He was Samoset, a friend of Squanto and Chief Massasoit" (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The Catholics were outnumbered by Protestant settlers in Maryland and the assembly passed this measure to guarantee freedom of worship to the Catholic minority (Ignitia.com Editors). "It granted religious freedom to all those who professed belief in Jesus Christ" (Ignitia.com Editors). -
In 1664 New York became an English proprietary colony, it began as a Dutch trading post (Ignitia.com Editors). The Dutch West India Company was chartered to colonize this region and to develop trade (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The authors claim that "James Oglethorpe and several of his friends received a charter from King George II to organize a colony south of the Carolinas"(Ignitia.com Editors). It will be called Georgia (Ignitia.com Editors).