A City on a Hill?

John Winthrop wrote these famous words in 1630 on the expected example that the colony would be for the world.

Read Winthrop's City on a Hill and comment below on why you think that people throughout United States history have seen it as document to study and commemorate.

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As oppossed to the two approaches that we have read about Columbus our text takes a different approach. The approach is primarily influenced by the work of Alfred Crosby who wrote Columbian Exchange: Bilogical and Cultural Consequences of 1492.

Read "When Worlds Collide" in your text (pages 14-17), "Admiral of the Sea" by Samuel Eliot Morison, The American Indian Movement statement and Crosby above and write below which perspective, in your opinion, you think is the most accurate.