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Christoper Columbus set sail from Spain westward to find new land. He had three tiny ships. After six weeks of looking for land, he sighted an island.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas was formed between Spain and Portugal. Spain got the lions share and Portugal recieved territory in African and Asia. Portugal also got the title to lands that one day would be Brazil.
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Vasco Nunez waded into the foaming waves off the coast of Panama. He claimed all the land that touched the Pacific Ocean for his king.
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The aztecs attacked and drove the Spanish down to a bloodyretreat. Cortes laid seige to the city of Tenochtitlan.
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The French king dispatched Giovanni da Verrazanoto pobe the eastern seaboard. Ten years later Jaques Cartier journeyed hundreds of miles up the St. Lawrence River.
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Francisco Pizarro crushed the Incas o Peru. After he crushed them, it added a huge hoard of booty to Spanish coffers.
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When Elizabth ascended to the throne of queen, Protestantism became dominant in England.
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The Spanish built a fortress here because they wanted to block the French ambitions and protect the sea lanes to the Caribbean. St. Augustine is the oldest continually inhabited european settlement.
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Francis Drake plundered his way around the planet returning three years later with his ship heavily ballasted with Spanish booty. Queen Elizabeth was his financial backer and helped him with venture netted profits.
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The English seadogs fought back against the Spanish flotilla. The Spanish Armada marked the beginning of the end of Spanish imperial dreams.
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Peace with Spain provided the opportunity for English colonization.Population growth provided for the workers.
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When the English landed in Jamestown, the chieftain Powhatan dominated the native people that lived in the James River area.
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The Spanish proclaimed the area to be New Mexico and found its capital to be Santa Fe. They found few furs and precious little gold. What they did discover was the wealth of souls to be harvested for Christian religion.
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John Rolfe perfected the methods of raising and curing the pungent weed of tobacco.He did that by eliminating much of the bitter tang. After that was done Europeans demand for it was insatiable.
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It was passed by local representative assemly. It guaranteed toleration to all Christians.
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The slave code denied the most fundemental rights to slaves and gave masters complete control of their laborers.
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When the colony was created they adopted a version of the Barbados slave code.
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The Pope's rebellion is when Roman Catholic mission's become the central institutions until the missionaries suppress native religious customs.
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The South Carolinians defeated and dispersed the Yamassee Indians.
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It was the last of the thirteen colonies to be planted. Georgia belongs elsewhere, but it is grouped with its southern neighbors.
