Episode 158: Planting Seeds
The History of English Podcast
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Planting Seeds to Produce Crops
In the mid-1500s, England started to establish settlements in Ireland that became known as plantations. The idea was really an alternative to traditional military conquest. Rather than sending in troops to subdue the native people of Ireland at great expense, the plantation approach designated regions to be settled by English migrants who were called planters.
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