Strayer, Chapter 13.

In the chapter 13 reading, something that really was interesting and something that I did not know about was that the British were the last of the European powers to have a colonial presence the Americas. And that it was a full century after Spain. Another thing that I really found interesting to learn about was that the land that they acquired was of New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Also that the land that was acquired was considered as the unpromising leftovers of the "New World" by the Europe and that they were considered as lacking in the obvious wealth and sophisticated cultures of the Spanish possessions. This really astonished me because not only that I am from New York but also that I can not think of New York as anything else than what it is now. It was also cool to learn the time line of how that not until at least the eighteenth century that these British colonies became far less prominent on the world stage than of Spain or Portugal. Another thing that I found really interesting was that the most profoundly transforming feature of the Russian Empire was the influx of Russian settlers. It was really crazy to learn about the numbers in population and how they overtook the native population of Siberia. By cutting the population of the natives by 30 percent of the total by 1720. And then the populations of the natives dropped to 14 percent by the nineteenth century. After reading this I thought that it was really crazy that a population could be affected so quickly by another and that it is so crazy that a whole civilization could be almost lost just by new people moving into the same area.

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