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Why did England decide to colonize North America?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
More land and resources
- bordnerLv 44 years ago
Portugal replaced into the only significant large-potential (and the 1st) for extra beneficial than a hundred years, from the early 1400's to the previous due 1500's. many people don't have this concept through fact portuguese history isn't besides huge-unfold as spanish or english, yet Portugal sailed, charted, explored and colonized all on my own, alongside the north and south atlantic and the west and east african coast from 1415 to 1492 whilst the spanish made their first voyage. Portugal additionally struck gold suitable interior the 1460's with the multi-million gold commerce from Elmina in Gana and in 1488 Portugal efficiently proved it replaced into obtainable to sail around Africa to realize Asia, establishing the fabulously wealthy Sea course to India and China. completely controlled by utilising Portugal from 1498 to 1580. South-u . s . of america, replaced into in basic terms a "shop-for-later" land for Portugal, through fact it replaced into very curious approximately the ecu-indian-chinese language commerce (spices, gold, precious stones, porcelain, silk). finally in 1530 Portugal began paying extra interest to Brazil however the invention of gold in sufficiently rewarding quantities in basic terms occurred interior the previous due 1600's. till then, Portugal presented sugar-cane and it became the main rewarding company interior the Americas. to respond to extra right away, England replaced right into a very small participant interior the international by utilising the time the Americas have been got here across, all it had have been some ships with pirates attacking portuguese and later spanish ships "interior the call of the crown". England became a large-potential after the failed spanish Armada tried to invade Britain in 1588 (composed of the final public of the spanish and additionally portuguese ships, through fact Portugal's youthful 19 12 months previous king had died without notice and the throne ended up in his cousin palms in 1580, which occurred to be the king of Spain...). in this technique Portugal and Spain lost maximum of their ships and Portugal lost the monopoly of Asian commerce, which introduced the english, dutch and french from minor gamers to significant powers.
- 1 decade ago
England was a very crowded place, and there was poor sanitation in the cities. Can you blame them for wanting to get out of there? I mean, seriously, can you?
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