Need an answer by tonight because i have a project due tomorrow and i dont know where i can find information.
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Well, in the 16th century most of the inhabitants of North America were native Americans (indians) and they lived by agriculture and by hunter-gathering. The white people who settled in America did not survive long, but I imagine they would have made some attempt at farming, fishing, hunting etc. The first real colonies to survive in America were not established until the early 17th century, Jamestown is, I believe, the first.
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Dunno if this is too late but... Hmn..do you mean the 1500s (the 16th Century) or the 1600s (the 17th Century; yeah I know, that naming of centuries bit always throws me off too)? Assuming the 1600s, well, unlike what American History might tell ya, there were more people here in North America than just the English arrivals (and I don't just mean the Native American nations). The French had begun to settle "the Canadas" (as they called Canada then), bumping heads with the local natives at the beginning. In time, tho, they would come to heavily trade with their native neighbors, in some cases coming to envy not the "indian" lands but _the Indian lifestyle_ which some French considered so free &, well, 'naturalistic'. Some, but not all, French would even 'go native', willingly choosing to live amongst their neighbors (and they would not be the last Europeans to do so). As French goods filtered to the native tribes, native goods would filter back to France. Unlike their other European competitors, the French were never able to populate their North American possessions with numbers of people even close to what the English & Spaniards had. In the early 1600s, the Swedes showed up & began settling parts of that savage untamed land we now know as New Jersey, lol. They were only around for a little over 20 years but during that time they claimed parts of Pennsylvania, Delaware, & New Jersey as "New Sweden" Ahead of the pack, tho, were the Spaniards who hit North America in the early 1500s, DECADES before the English decided to cruise into Plymouth. WITH the help of local native tribes, they took over management of what's now known as Mexico from the Aztecs in the 1520s & began to colonize. Contrary to popular imagination, they did more than just brutalize the natives into submission (tho, to be fair, it did happen; yet they _weren't_ the only Europeans who made this a popular pastime **cough** the English **cough**). They set up towns & outposts as they steadily moved northward from what it now Mexico City, claiming lands as far north as what is now British Vancouver. What's also not usually told in popular American History was the progress of Spanish explorers up from what is now Florida & Cuba, into what is now Massachusetts & other parts of New England. Tho the Spaniards catalogued the area with Spanish names they were never able to colonize it, altho Spanish missions began to spring up in what became the Carolinas. Apart from keeping Catholic missionaries busy in the conversion business, the Spaniards busily mined precious metals wherever they found 'em, sending the metal & other goods back to Spain. The general population lived busy lives, either out on the frontier in the mining or ranching business, or in the cities like Mexico City. Living on the frontier was extremely dangerous due to regular 'visits' by the Apache & other hostile tribes. Living in the cities, mainly Mexico City, was no less dangerous with crime & disease rampant. Nevertheless, city folk made their way with various trades. I hope that helps.
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