Mortgage loan consultants perform the same duties as a bank loan officer. These include collecting personal information in a loan application, using it to assess a borrower's credit and financial history and explaining the loan process to the applicants.
By 1650, however, England had established a dominant presence on the Atlantic coast. The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Many of the people who settled in the New World came to escape religious persecution. The Pilgrims, founders of Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived in 1620. In both Virginia and Massachusetts, the colonists flourished with some assistance from Native Americans.
First European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa. Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese pronunciation: [baÉ¾tuluËmew Ëdi.ÉÊ]; Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz; c. 1450 â 29 May 1500), a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.