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Using common sense and your imagination can serve you very well in mastering American history.  Pause for a moment and predict would likely happen to a nice chunk of fertile land, possibly containing riches like gold, located between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  Would some Europeans want to go there?  Which ones would want to go there, and why?
 
Using common sense and your imagination can serve you very well in mastering American history.  Pause for a moment and predict would likely happen to a nice chunk of fertile land, possibly containing riches like gold, located between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  Would some Europeans want to go there?  Which ones would want to go there, and why?
 
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One reason is to convert the natives to Christianity, just as homeschool families today often go on missionary trips to distant lands.  Another reason is to search for gold and other riches.  A third reason is to obtain freedom.  Another reason is for thee same reason people climb mountains:  because they are there!  Some want to escape where they are.  Others want to set up a new community, perhaps a new religious environment.  Others hope to meet new people and make new friends, engage in the trade of goods (give them something you goods with the people.  Another motivation is to learn from the new people, or have adventures and then write about them.
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One reason is to convert the natives to Christianity, just as homeschool families today often go on missionary trips to distant lands.  Another reason is to search for gold and other riches.  A third reason is to obtain freedom.  Another reason is for the same reason people climb mountains:  because they are there!  Some want to escape where they are.  Others want to set up a new community, perhaps a new religious environment.  Others hope to meet new people and make new friends, engage in the trade of goods (give them something you goods with the people.  Another motivation is to learn from the new people, or have adventures and then write about them.
 
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What is likely to happen if a bunch of Europeans go this land?  Conflicts with the natives.  Conflicts with other European countries.  Conflicts with the mother country that sent the settlers.  New opportunities for improvements, for new products, for new businesses, for new religions, for new systems of government.
 
What is likely to happen if a bunch of Europeans go this land?  Conflicts with the natives.  Conflicts with other European countries.  Conflicts with the mother country that sent the settlers.  New opportunities for improvements, for new products, for new businesses, for new religions, for new systems of government.
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