From the history of New York.0:05
400 years ago, Manhattan island was the home of Native Americans.0:09
In 1609, a ship, the Half Moon, from Europe, came up the river to Manhattan.0:14
There were some Europeans on the ship.0:21
One of them was Henry Hudson.0:24
Today, the name of the river to the west of Manhattan is the Hudson River.0:26
Seven years later, in 1626, another man came from Europe to Manhattan, and he bought the island from the natives.0:31
He gave about $24 for Manhattan.0:40
Soon some wooden houses appeared there, and people gave the little town the name of New Amsterdam.0:44
In 1647, about 500 people lived in New Amsterdam.0:52
It was a fairly large city.0:59
In 1664, the British took the city and gave it a different name.1:01
At the end of the 18th century, about 33,000 people were living in New York.1:10
But then millions more men and women began to travel to America from all over the world.1:16
These new Americans often lived in the same streets with other people from their country, Italians with Italians, people from China with other people from China.1:24
Today, New York has parts that everybody knows as Chinatown and Little Italy.1:36
Nowadays, about 8 million people live in New York.1:43
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