11.   Brought by the first European settlers, apple trees were necessary for survival in Colonial times and in settling the West as well.

12.   But the European settlers did not tread lightly on the forests of the New World.

13.   European settlers learned to eat the turkey.

14.   European settlers noted that the American Indian tribes they met wore leather shoes, Dr. Kuttruff said.

15.   Early European settlers molded the landscape around the belief that Platonic geometrical forms had divine properties.

16.   Early European settlers, in contrast, hated and feared the killer whale, which had a reputation as a vicious predator.

17.   European settlers fell in love with the natural potions.

18.   In some cases, as in the allegory about the aliens, the lessons veer sharply from traditional American history to cast the European settlers as selfish trespassers.

19.   It was still practiced, of course, as was concubinage, especially between European settlers in America and their female slaves.

20.   It was an early food source for Native Americans and the first European settlers.