In the early 1600s, God initiated the separation of Manasseh from Ephraim, leading the people of Manasseh to move from England to the coastlands of Jamestown in AD 1607. Fleeing religious persecution, more followed, founding Plymouth thirteen years later, and over time, these early Manassite settlers and their descendants grew into the great peoples of the early United States of America. The colonies they established, eventually thirteen in number, achieved independence from England by the end of the 1700s. Through Moses, God prophesied that Joseph would push the peoples to the end of the earth, and America, as Manasseh, fulfilled this by rallying to the cry of manifest destiny, pushing westward past the Appalachians, across the Mississippi River, over the Rockies, beyond the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, the Philippine Islands, and the Japanese Islands. Like her brother Ephraim, America developed a thalassocracy, with vast naval power enforcing her economic interests as far as the Arabian Desert. The land of Manasseh, seen by early American settlers as a vast, multicolored tapestry, was rich with resources—green forests filled with fur-bearing animals, black soil for farming, blue waters teeming with fish, golden fields of grain, and a glimmering abundance of gold, silver, copper, iron, coal, and oil. Using these resources provided by God, the folk of Manasseh built a rich, powerful nation, surpassing even Solomon's Kingdom in scope. Despite this, modern-day Manasseh, alongside Ephraim, has used the wealth and influence given by God to push a way of life contrary to His ways, promoting globalism and subverting those around them rather than serving as an example of godliness.