Conversation so far:
When was the early colonial era?
16th centuries and 17th centuries.
What happened in the 16th century?
the Lenape were a powerful Native American nation who inhabited a region on the mid-Atlantic coast.
What did the Lenape do during the 16th century?
Some of their place names, such as Manhattan ("the island of many hills"), Raritan, and Tappan were adopted by Dutch and English colonists to.

Question: What happened in the 17th century?
Self-contained rewrite: What happened in the 17th century?