US History timeline & concept chart: 10th-16th centuries pre-colonial Native Americans to early North American colonization (Spanish, French, Dutch): Difference between revisions
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** as governor negotiated w/ local Indians (Massasoit of the Pokanokets), created alliance w/ Pokanokets | ** as governor negotiated w/ local Indians (Massasoit of the Pokanokets), created alliance w/ Pokanokets | ||
** wrote “on Plymouth plantation” = important historical record | ** wrote “on Plymouth plantation” = important historical record | ||
click EXPAAND for Bradford's account of the cicada outbreak of 1633: | |||
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"It is to be observed that, the spring before this sickness, there was a numerous company of Flies which were like for bigness unto wasps or Bumble-Bees; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made such a constant yelling noise as made the woods ring of them, and ready to deafen the hearers; they were not any seen or heard by the English in this country before this time; but the Indians told them that sickness would follow, and so it did, very hot, in the months of June, July, and August of that summer."</pre></div> | |||
* '''John Winthrop''', 1587-1649 | * '''John Winthrop''', 1587-1649 | ||