by Strong Americas | Jul 29, 2026
Belize’s coastal forests were inhabited by Maya communities for centuries before European contact, and Spain claimed the territory in the sixteenth century without establishing a permanent settlement, as sustained Maya resistance and dense terrain deterred...
by Strong Americas | Jul 29, 2026
The Barbados colonial period began in 1625, when Captain John Powell claimed the uninhabited island for England; a party of eighty settlers and ten enslaved Africans led by his brother Henry Powell landed in 1627 to found the first permanent colony. Early planters...
by Strong Americas | Jul 29, 2026
The Bahamas colonial period began in 1648, when English Puritan settlers known as the Eleutheran Adventurers, fleeing religious intolerance in Bermuda, established the first permanent European colony on the island of Eleuthera. Settlement soon spread to New...
by Strong Americas | Jul 29, 2026
The Argentina colonial period began in the early sixteenth century with Spanish colonization, though the region long remained a peripheral outpost of the Viceroyalty of Peru, governed from distant Lima. Buenos Aires, founded in 1536 and refounded in 1580 after an...
by Strong Americas | Jul 29, 2026
Antigua’s difficult terrain and limited fresh water discouraged early Spanish and French settlement, and the island’s indigenous Kalinago (Carib) inhabitants resisted colonization for over a century. English settlers from the nearby colony of Saint Kitts...
