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300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]
India, during its colonial era, was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. [4]
1600: Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a Royal charter to the English East India Company. 1602: Establishment of the Dutch East India Company. 1607: The first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. 1612-1615: The Portuguese captured Gamru Port and a few other places (like Hormuz Island) in southern coast of Persia.
Indian commercial development is defined as the economic evolution of Native American tribes from hunter-gatherer based societies into fur-trade-based industries. From the early 1500s to the 1800s, intertribal and European relationships evolved in response to the growth of English settlements into the United States.
Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America; End of the First British Empire [3] Cherokee–American wars (1776–94) Part of the American Revolutionary War United States: Cherokee: Second Cherokee War (1776) Part of the Cherokee–American wars: Northwest Indian War (1785–95) United States Chickasaw Choctaw: Western ...
For example, the British government compensated British Loyalists after the American Revolution, British enslavers after the abolition of slavery, and British subjects in India after a large wave ...
The major battles took place in Europe, but American colonial troops fought the French and their Indian allies in New York, New England, and Nova Scotia with the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). At the Albany Congress of 1754, Benjamin Franklin proposed that the colonies be united by a Grand Council overseeing a common policy for defense, expansion ...
The East India Company monopolized the trade of Bengal. They introduced a land taxation system called the Permanent Settlement which introduced a feudal-like structure (See Zamindar) in the Bengal Presidency. By the 1850s, the East India Company controlled most of the Indian subcontinent, which included present-day Pakistan and Bangladesh.