A map showing European colonization of the world in the seventeenth century.

The Pepper Trade

Japan Admits Western Traders

Dutch Dominate Southeast Asian Trade

Wars for the Red Sea Trade

British Establish Trading Post in Canton

American Indian Slave Trade

Confederation of the United Colonies of New England

Dutch Begin to Colonize Southern Africa

English Discover and Colonize Barbados

Settlement of Connecticut

Settlement of the Carolinas

First European Settlement in North America

Europeans Settle in India

First Jewish Settlers in North America