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While we look at American history as a part of the European
history and the European history as a part of the world history, not
only it gives us a wider and broader perspective to American history but
also it sets us free from looking at the history based on the idea of
nation-state which leads us to ignore the peoples who were not a nation.
It helps us not to ignore and neglect the ethnic groups.
As history is a selective story told by a story-teller, then different narratives narrate it in different ways. That is, some of them may stress a certain event, while others neglect and ignore it. On the other hand, some may focus on the latter, while others do not talk about it very much.
The same story happens when it comes to the story of the beginning of America when the European immigrants arrived in America. This story can be told in two major ways. The first one can be very pleasant, while the second one is disgusting. The first narrative talks about the people who fled Europe from monarch, tyranny and pressure looking for freedom and liberty. They were religious people living where they were not allowed to practice their religion and were obliged to practice what they did not want to. They emigrated to the New World and settled in Plymouth in Massachusetts and they got freedom and liberty. This story is told in another way as well. That is, the European monarchs were dealing with different problems. To solve these problems they looked for new opportunities. When they were informed that they could explore the world to get new and better opportunities and to find Gold, spice and so on, they gave permission to some charter companies to start voyages. Then, 3 ships and 100 men and boys set off. They arrived in Virginia. They faced many problems and they were so starved that started cannibalism. They killed many of the indigenous people of the land to get their resources. As we see, these are two very different narratives of the same history. Selecting a story depends very much on the historian or the story-teller and the way he/she looks.
There are three different classes of people at the beginning of the 17th Century in Europe who left Europe to America. Ones who were suffering from economic problems and looked for economic freedom which was ownership and these people were mainly traders. The second class were the ones who were suffering from religious pressures and they were looking for religious freedom and these were usually reformers and Protestants. The third class were the ones who were suffering from monarchy and tyranny and were looking for political freedom and liberty and these were usually political philosophers. Each of these people had their own purposes and had a reason to flee to America and each of them settled in a specific part of America. However some of them had two or even all three of these reasons. Each of these people established their own lands and started different practices according to their problems and the reason they had come to America for.
The important fact is that whether they had fled to America for religious freedom, political freedom or economic freedom, they all had a reason and having of these reasons was enough to play as a motive to leave their country and go to a country they have never been to. On the one hand they were pushed by different pressures and problems existing in Europe and on the other hand, they were pulled by promised opportunities, freedom and liberty of the New World.
As history is a selective story told by a story-teller, then different narratives narrate it in different ways. That is, some of them may stress a certain event, while others neglect and ignore it. On the other hand, some may focus on the latter, while others do not talk about it very much.
The same story happens when it comes to the story of the beginning of America when the European immigrants arrived in America. This story can be told in two major ways. The first one can be very pleasant, while the second one is disgusting. The first narrative talks about the people who fled Europe from monarch, tyranny and pressure looking for freedom and liberty. They were religious people living where they were not allowed to practice their religion and were obliged to practice what they did not want to. They emigrated to the New World and settled in Plymouth in Massachusetts and they got freedom and liberty. This story is told in another way as well. That is, the European monarchs were dealing with different problems. To solve these problems they looked for new opportunities. When they were informed that they could explore the world to get new and better opportunities and to find Gold, spice and so on, they gave permission to some charter companies to start voyages. Then, 3 ships and 100 men and boys set off. They arrived in Virginia. They faced many problems and they were so starved that started cannibalism. They killed many of the indigenous people of the land to get their resources. As we see, these are two very different narratives of the same history. Selecting a story depends very much on the historian or the story-teller and the way he/she looks.
There are three different classes of people at the beginning of the 17th Century in Europe who left Europe to America. Ones who were suffering from economic problems and looked for economic freedom which was ownership and these people were mainly traders. The second class were the ones who were suffering from religious pressures and they were looking for religious freedom and these were usually reformers and Protestants. The third class were the ones who were suffering from monarchy and tyranny and were looking for political freedom and liberty and these were usually political philosophers. Each of these people had their own purposes and had a reason to flee to America and each of them settled in a specific part of America. However some of them had two or even all three of these reasons. Each of these people established their own lands and started different practices according to their problems and the reason they had come to America for.
The important fact is that whether they had fled to America for religious freedom, political freedom or economic freedom, they all had a reason and having of these reasons was enough to play as a motive to leave their country and go to a country they have never been to. On the one hand they were pushed by different pressures and problems existing in Europe and on the other hand, they were pulled by promised opportunities, freedom and liberty of the New World.
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