A History of the United States for Schools: Including a Concise Account of the Discovery of America, the Colonization of the Land, and the Revolutionary WarSilver, Burdett and Company, 1896 - 439 páginas |
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... nearly all portions of the world were inhabited , though but a few nations were in any sense civilized . There were the Indians of America , the Negroes of Africa , the Chinese of Eastern Asia ; but the world with which the civilized ...
... nearly all portions of the world were inhabited , though but a few nations were in any sense civilized . There were the Indians of America , the Negroes of Africa , the Chinese of Eastern Asia ; but the world with which the civilized ...
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... nearly every European city of any prominence had introduced the printing - press . trade that had sprung up between India and Europe by caravan to the Medi- terranean , and thence by vessel to the ports of Venice and Genoa , was the ...
... nearly every European city of any prominence had introduced the printing - press . trade that had sprung up between India and Europe by caravan to the Medi- terranean , and thence by vessel to the ports of Venice and Genoa , was the ...
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... nearly lost their lives from famine when an English vessel met them and carried them away captive . 20. Fort Caroline . Coligny was not disheartened by this failure , and , during the truce in France , obtained the consent of the king ...
... nearly lost their lives from famine when an English vessel met them and carried them away captive . 20. Fort Caroline . Coligny was not disheartened by this failure , and , during the truce in France , obtained the consent of the king ...
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... nearly all the vessels , though but few Philip II . , king of Spain , was born in 1527 , and occupied the throne from 1556 until 1598. His father , Charles V. , was not only king of Spain , but also " Emperor of the Romans , " and ruler ...
... nearly all the vessels , though but few Philip II . , king of Spain , was born in 1527 , and occupied the throne from 1556 until 1598. His father , Charles V. , was not only king of Spain , but also " Emperor of the Romans , " and ruler ...
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... nearly carried away the whole colony . Those who succeeded in escaping the disease were too few to care properly for the sick , and it was almost impossible to obtain decent burial for those who died . About fifty , or nearly one - half ...
... nearly carried away the whole colony . Those who succeeded in escaping the disease were too few to care properly for the sick , and it was almost impossible to obtain decent burial for those who died . About fifty , or nearly one - half ...
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