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THE COLLISION OF CULTURES America before Columbus Europe Looks Westward The Arrival of the English 1 2 he discovery of the Americas did not begin with Christopher Columbus. It began many thousands of years earlier, when human beings first crossed into the new continents and began to people them. By the end of the fifteenth century a.d., when the first important con- tact with Europeans occurred, the Americas were the home of millions of men and women. These ancient civilizations ha...

“The historical period that encompassed the majority of Montaigne’s adult life was one of the most tumultuous in France’s history, as decades of civil war ravaged the country. The wars of religion (1562-1598) unleashed brutal fighting and destruction as they pitted Catholics, for the most part supported by the king, and Huguenots, an often tenuous confederation of French noblemen and followers of the Reformation, against one another. The conflict between these two camps, which quic...