Discover why European powers rushed to colonize the New World driven by economic gain, religious missions, national rivalry, ...

Age of Discovery: European Exploration of North America. Posted: February 20, 2025 | Last updated: February 20, 2025. Suffers from significant fillm emulsion damage at the beginning.

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...

A world without European colonization might have been colonized by non-Western empires instead. ... and North America by the Japanese or Chinese, starting in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

At the start of the 17 th century, a group of Englishmen docked their ships on the coast of North America in a bid to start a settlement, which they named Jamestown, Virginia – after King James I ...