Before Jamestown

Jamestown was the first English colony in America....sort of. Colonization was a global and bloody process of trial and error. We tell the story of colonization before the English found success in Jamestown.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:07 Natives
• 4:40 The World in the 15th Century
• 5:44 Reasons for Expansion
• 7:33 Story of Expansion
• 10:33 Themes of Expansion
• 15:11 Multiple Empires
• 16:51 English in America
• 23:22 Jamestown
• 27:58 Conclusion