The Spanish, Swedes, French, and Dutch all made claims to the area. The English where the first to successfully colonize. They shared the region with mostly Algonquin indians.
It was founded in 1629 by George Calvert aka Lord Baltimore and was claimed by Britain, and was founded as a mainly-Catholic Providence.
I have found that wherever they settled in the New York Colony, the Dutch Reformed Church mainly dominated.
The New Hampshire Colony was mainly Puritan.
Massachusetts Bay Colony was created in 1628 by the Massachusetts Bay Company. The colony was mainly settled by Puritans who incorporated their belief into the governing of the colony. As a result, there was religious intolerance in the colony.
To a very large extent it was about whether Europe was to be dominated by Germany.
colony term is mainly used in biology... fungal colony, colony of bacteria etc.. basically a group name.
The Puritans settled mainly in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Massachusetts
They ate mainly corn and crops.
Mainly the peoples of Egypt and Sudan.
Mainly through shipping and growing cash crops.
Mainly for warmer weather. The land was flater on the steppes so it made it easier to travel.