The Colonial Period: Introduction

In the beginning of the 17th century, the flow of immigration from Europe to North America began. This movement ranges from hundreds of British settlers to millions of newcomers for over three centuries. Being driven by a strong and diverse motivation, they built a new civilization on the former barbaric continent.

The Spanish colonies prospering in Mexico, the West Indies and South America were founded and the first British immigrants in the US now crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Like all the early visitors to the New World, they come from a small and crowded boat. During the 6 to 12 week voyage, they were living with poor food. Many of them died of illness, the ship was often hit by storms and some were missing at sea.

For a tired traveler, the view of the American coast is very comfortable. According to the chronicle, the league air of 12 leaves a sweet scent like a new garden. "It was the first time that colonists saw the new land in a dense forest for the first time, indeed, many of the Indians in the forest are hostile and the threat of Indian attack increases the difficulty of daily life. A vast open snow forest covering the north to south of the east coast, about 2,100 km, becomes a treasure trove, providing rich raw materials for exporting abundant food, fuel, and home, furniture, ships, and beneficial merchandise Let's see.

The first British permanent solution in the United States was a trading place founded in 1607 in Jamestown, Old Dominion, Virginia. This area will soon develop a prosperous economy from the crop tobacco. And it found a market ready in the UK. By 1620, when a woman in the UK got married and came to Virginia to build a house, the number of large farms spread along the James River increased, with a population of 1000 people.

In the colonial era, tea gardens were introduced on a large scale in Kericho and Nadi highlands. Since then, these regions have established Kenya as one of the world's leading tea exporters, and have played an important role in establishing tea culture with Karen. This period also began to introduce lunch, but added a small amount of bread and other food to breakfast and did not add too much pancake or maandaji. The majority of Karenjin spokesman is a self-sufficient farmer who cultivates corn, wheat, other low quality sorghum and millet, and keeps beef, goats and sheep for meat production. The majority of people are practicing combinations of agriculture and livestock (usually cattle)

For East African colonies and post-colonial cities, some of the most widely available key sources of late colonial provision provided helpful introductions. Like other parts of the UK, until 1945 staff and academics paid little attention to East African cities. Most of the important government reports and innovative social surveys published in the 1950s are trying to solve this ignoring. East African cities were ignored in the first wave of historical study after the colonial period in the 1960s and 1970s. On the coast of Africa, Cooper shows how colonies respond to Africa's labor requirements, especially long-term and unpredictable impacts on colonial emerging markets.