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The Creeks were particularly good at manipulation – they had begun trading with South Carolina in the last years of the 17th century and became a trusted deerskin provider. [104] The Creek were already a prosperous tribe due to their control over the most valuable hunting lands, especially when compared to the impoverished Cherokee. [ 102 ]
In the 1st century AD, Jewish Zealots in Judaea resisted the poll tax instituted by the Roman Empire. [3]: 1–7 Jesus was accused of promoting tax resistance prior to his torture and execution ("We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, saying that he himself is Christ a King" — Luke 23:2). [4]
A few hundred head of cattle were reported in the town in 1600. The failure to establish herds of cattle meant that 2,000 ducats worth of dried beef had to be imported from Havana yearly. [2] [7] [8] Documentation about ranches in Spanish Florida is scarce, particularly in the first half of the 17th century.
The range cattle industry (1930) online edition; Danbom, David B. Sod Busting: How families made farms on the 19th-century Plains (2014) Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers' Frontier: 1865–1900 (1966), the west; Fite, Gilbert C. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865–1980 (1984) Freeman, John F. and Mark E. Uchanski.
The Basques were fur trading, fishing cod and whaling in Terranova (Labrador and Newfoundland) in 1520, [32] and in Iceland by at least the early 17th century. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] They established whaling stations at the former, mainly in Red Bay , [ 35 ] and probably established some in the latter as well.
In the period following Oliver Cromwell's fall in England, the colony grew and transitioned to a slave economy. It saw the beginnings of industry and urbanization. At the turn of the eighteenth century, King William's War (1689–1697) and Queen Anne's War (1702–1714) brought Maryland into depression again as European demand for tobacco decreased sharply.
The most populous emigration of the 17th century was that of the English, and after a series of wars with the Dutch and the French the English overseas possessions came to dominate the east coast of North America, an area stretching from Virginia northwards to New England and Newfoundland, although during the 17th century an even greater number ...
In the beginning of the European colonial era, trade companies such as the East India Company were the most common method used to settle new land. [1] That changed after Maryland's Royal Grant in 1632, when King Charles I granted George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, proprietary rights to an area east of the Potomac River in exchange for a share of the income derived there.