Europeans came to settle in the Caribbean primarily for economic opportunities, driven by the search for new trade routes and lucrative resources like sugar, tobacco, and gold. The region's favorable climate and fertile land made it ideal for agriculture, particularly sugar plantations, which became a significant driver of the transatlantic slave trade. Additionally, the Caribbean offered strategic naval bases for European powers, enhancing their global influence. The quest for territorial expansion and competition among European nations also motivated colonization efforts.
Africans came to the Caribbean because of slavery and the caribbean is a small island.
The native Woodland Indians
No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.
The British and Europeans settle in North America. This was in Jamestown.
Europeans can get to the Caribbean by ship or plane, but when they first reached the Caribbean it was by ship because planes were not yet invented.
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what factors motivated the europeans to explore and settle in the caribbean up until the 17 century
Africans came to the Caribbean because of slavery and the caribbean is a small island.
they came to discover jamaica
in their ports of entry
Some came for the furs. The Plymouth Colony came for religious freedom.
sugar. the Europeans wanted sugar in order to make new goods (foods, such as sugar canes) to make money.
The native Woodland Indians
Columbus, I don't know
No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.No, the Pilgrims were white Europeans who came to settle in the "New World" that was already populated by indigenous people who are sometimes collectively called Indians.
Civilization in the Caribbean did not begin with the Europeans. Indigenous people lived in the Caribbean long before the arrival of the Europeans. If anything, the Europeans are responsible for the diversity of races in the Caribbean.
Supposedly, "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" Most people agree he landed some where in the Caribbean, not on North America.