The first overseas settlements of the Dutch and Northern Atlantic Europeans were not for colonization but for trade and mining. - history nonfiction
While Central Europe thus remained divided and confused, the Western Europeans and particularly the Dutch, the Scandinavians, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the French and the British were extending the area of their struggles across the seas of all the world.
The printing press had dissolved the political ideas of Europe into a vast and at first indeterminate fermentation, but that other great innovation, the ocean-going sailing ship, was inexorably extending the range of European experience to the furthermost limits of salt water.
Österreich Neuesten Nachrichten, Österreich Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
Northern Ireland unionists face historic choice as EU, UK near protocol dealNorthern Ireland's largest unionist party faces a historic dilemma if EU and British negotiators clinch a post-Brexit trade deal: redraw their red lines or risk signing a death warrant for decades of power-sharing with Irish nationalists.
Weiterlesen »
Northern Syria, already ravaged by war, is desperate for aid after the earthquakeNorthern Syria was already ravaged by civil war. Then the devastating earthquake hit. Our correspondent went to the isolated region — and brought back this rare dispatch.
Weiterlesen »
NORAD confirms 'high-altitude airborne object' flying over northern CanadaNORAD confirmed on Saturday that it is tracking an unidentified airborne object that is hovering over Northern Canada but did not provide further details.
Weiterlesen »