This chapter deals with the cultivation of the Americas through the paths of the Spanish, French, and English. It describes all the areas that the Spanish, French, and English have claimed land on and the problems that they faced while creating colonies there. One thing I found really interesting was the fact that the they all pretended to befriend the Indians, but only to end up using them to fight other countries or tribes and it always ended with the Indians getting betrayed and enslaved by there allies (For example how the British used the Indians in Florida to drive the Spanish out). It also talked a lot about how disease plagued the settlers and Indians of the land causing death rates over 25 percent. It goes on to talk about how religion shaped the laws and attitudes of different colonies. It's kind of amusing that one colony, like the Puritans, would banish people who didn't have the same values and beliefs as them, like the Quakers, who would go on to create their own colony, yet only to end up trading with them later o

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Approximate Word count = 697
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)