New+York

New York
==In the year 1609 Dutch merchants hired the English explorer Henry Hudson to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. They hired him to find a passage across the sea to get to Asia. They sent him with lots of silk and goods that needed to be shipped from Asia. After many days at sea he landed what is now modern New York. With about a month of searching he and his crew were unable to find a shorter route to Asia; after that they returned to England. When New Amsterdam was captured by the English without any deaths, the dutch just gave up they named after the duke James the duke of York.==

==The Dutch ended up claiming the land Henry Hudson explored. The land that was claimed is now Delaware, New Jersey, New York and parts of what is now Connecticut. There they began to build their homes and villages.== ==New York was like a trading post. People from all around the world were practically left their slaves here for money. New York was a colony that made lots of things (boots, beer, bread etc) so if you needed things this would be a place to get it. Colonists traded eggs, bread and milk. They traded items from the new world for items from Europe. Lots of the colonist from New York became rich in the fur trading business, they traded there things for fur with the Indians.==