The Sixteenth Century--The Spanish Empire and the Appearance of the English

1. The Spanish Empire
   1. Extension
   2. Character
      1. Imperial Domination of Indigenous Peoples
      2. Not a "Settler" Colony
      3. Role of Eastern North America
         1. Little Interest in Direct Rule or Settlement
         2. Continuing Military-Missionary Interest--St. Augustine
         3. Result--a (European) Power Vaccuum
2. The French--Impotence
3. The English
   1. Timing--Why So Late?
      1. Delayed Development
      2. Emergence by 1600--Factors
         1. Economic Dynamism--The Wool Trade
         2. Political Consolidation--The Tudors
         3. Merchant Power--The Joint-Stock Company
   2. The New World and English Interests
      1. Military--Protection from Spanish
      2. Commercial--The "Northwest Passage"
      3. "Living Room"--Raleigh, the Hakluyts, and "Greater England"
   3. Final Preconditions to Colonization
      1. Peace With Spain (1604)
      2. "Privatized" Imperialism--The Joint Stock Company Again