Apparently, rice played an important role in the growth of population and the founding of new settlements.
Having never ventured outside Sydney harbour before, they accompanied the English on globe-trotting voyages, witnessing the founding of new settlements and helping to explore new frontiers.
The founding of rival settlements by proslavery and abolitionist supporters after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) brought rapid development.
The interval was concurrent with Norse explorations of the New World, the founding of Norse settlements in Iceland and Greenland, and increased agricultural productivity and crop diversity in northern Europe.
Two of his historical works became universally popular: Breviarium Nicephori ("Nicephorus' Short History"), which narrated events during Byzantine reigns from 602 to 769 and is significant for material on the founding of Bulgarian settlements; and chronological tables, which listed civil and ecclesiastical offices from the time of Adam to the year 829.
With the lives of ordinary Parisians still largely unrecorded, this book's early chapters are inevitably fairly conventional, starting with the founding of the settlement on the river Seine by the Parisii, then its occupation by the Romans, who renamed it Lutetia.
The history of Briarcliff Manor can be traced back to the founding of a settlement between the Hudson and Pocantico Rivers in the 19th century.
Within a year of the founding of this settlement, however, there was dissension among the leaders, and the Dyers joined Coddington, with several other inhabitants, in moving to the south end of the island, establishing the town of Newport.
The history of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD.
The confederados, as they later became known, founded a handful of settlements, most of which failed owing to the combination of difficult soil, poor roads and biting ants that had disheartened many colonists before them.
The building of the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860s led to the founding of several early settlements, including Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs, and Evanston.
