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  Colonial Farm Kitchen. Notice clock in the corner. American Colonial History, 1607-1775   THE 1600s Preliminary Comments   About 350,000 Europeans emigrated to the American colonies in the 1600s. They were risk-takers. They left long-settled communities and societies to get on small, crowded sailing ships to make the dangerous 3,000 voyage to a new land that was mostly wilderness. About 5% died. They had to adapt to a new, frontier environment of forests and swamps. They had to “ tame the howling wilderness .”  A high percent of the European immigrants in this period were from England. Almost all were Protestants.   Emigrants from England came over in three “waves.”  Then a fourth 'wave" came to the North American colonies in the 1700s. They were four distinctly different groups of people from different areas of the English isles.   To understand why these four groups left England and Scotland, at different times and for different reasons, ...

      THE MIND OF THE PRINCE   The only goal of a Prince is to get and keep power. Others may lust after wealth or prestige but all that matters to the Prince is power. The Prince sees society divided in three groups - supporters, enemies, and silent, fearful politically passive.    To you, politics is a zero-sum game. You win, your enemies lose. There are no democratic negotiations or compromises. Only temporary alliances that can be broken.   BUILDING YOUR POLITICAL BASE   You share with your supporters a deeply negative view of the future of society. Your supporters see a bright past compared to a dark future. You share this vision. You tell them that only you can fight against or reverse this trend.     You share their belief that the present is corrupt and the future bleak because of conspiracies. An important part of your appeal is to find or invent conspiracies. You find scapegoats to blame for what your supporters believe is...