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1、 2.4 The Discovery and colonies The earliest identified inhabitants is now recognized as American Indians.Viking ships explored the far northeastern coast of North America around the year 1000 A.D.In 1492,America was discovered by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who was intended to dicover Ind

2、ia.Because Columbus was convinced he had reached the Indies,he referred to the islands brown-skinned inhabitants as Indians.In 1497,Vespucci was first to assert that the New World was not Asia,but rather an entirely different continent altogether.And in honor of Amerigo Vespucci,German map-maker nam

3、ed the region“America”.Part 1 Discovery Since the discovery,many European countries established colonies in North America.King James，King of England,in 1605,granted a charter to two business groups committed to colonizing Virginia,the London Company and the Plymouth Company.By 1733,English settlers

4、had occupied 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast.The French controlled Canada and Louisiana.After the Seven Years War,England gained control of Canada and all of North America east of the Mississippi in 1763.Part 2 Colonies In 1620,the Pilgrim Fathers on a ship called the Mayflower.They had been pe

5、rsecuted in England,and they finally landed in Plymouth,Massachusetts.The signed a written agreement,the Mayflower Compact,which is famous in the American history.pilgrims and Mayflower The Greeks usually carried with them affection for the government they left behind The Greeks sacred fire from the

6、 altar of the parent city.The immigrants who came to America disliked compacts of government for themselves.The immigrants set up altars of their own.The immigrants sought not only new soil to till but political and religious liberty for themselves and their children.The differences between American colonization and that of the anicients