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The vickings were people who came from scandinavia. In A.D.1001,Leif Ericsson and 35 other vickings explored the coast of labrador and stayed the winter in newfoundland.
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columbus soon left for his second voyage with 17 ships and 1,200 colonists. In november 1493 he landed in hispaniola, many of the colonists felt that columbus had mislead them with the promises of gold so the colonists went back to spain. columbus stayed and found more gold.
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in 1497 ,the king of england sent john cabot to find the western route to asia.
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spanish troops led by diego velazque conquered cuba
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in 1511 spanish troops, led by divelazquez ,conqured cuba.cortes took part in the invasion and his courage impressed velazquez.
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juan ponce de leon , the spanish governor of puerto rico discovered in 1513.
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Cortes set sail for mxico. He had 11 ships, 550 men, and 16 horses.
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luther was expelled from the catholic church but his ideas started to spread rapidly across western europe.
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In 1520 the aztec priests orgnized a rebellion aganist the spanish and drove out of the captial.
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in 1521 cortes launches another attack and this time he defeated the aztec
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In 1524, three years after cortes conquered the aztec, king francis 1of france sent giovannai da verrazano to map no0rth americas coastline
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in 1526 pizarro landed in preu and encourted the inca empire
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in 1527 king henery the 8th asked the pope to his annual marriage
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england was produceing mare wool than europeans would buy and the price fell.
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fur-particularly beaver -fur had become very fashionable in europe.
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in 1606 england granted the virginia company premission to establish colonies in virginia.
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to escape this prescution one group of separatist fled to holland in 1608
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in 1614 the virginia company had hired captian john smith to explore the region .
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in september 1620, 102 passangers set off on the journey across the altantic aboard the mayflower .the trip took 65days.
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the company(massachustts bay company)had already recieved a royal charter to create a colony in new england.
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a young minister named roger williams arrives in boston.
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a young minister named roger williams arrives in boston
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england granted the virginia company permission to establish colonies in virgina.
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france's king louis xiv sized controal to new france and made it a royal colony.
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king charles decided that the time had come to seize new netherland.
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william penn became involved in quaker attempts to create a colony in the 1670.
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wr erupted between the backcountry settlers and native americans
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general james oglethorpe , a wealthy member of parilaments, was appalied to find that many people in england were in prison simply because they could not pay their debts.
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the french in louisiana had imported over 1,800 enslaved africans to work on their plantations
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spanish missionaries led by the franciscan priest. junipero of serra took controal of california by establishing a chain of missions from san diego to san franciso.
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between 10 and 12 million africans were transported on the jouney known as the middle passage.
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colombus and his three ships left spain in august 1492.he landed on the bahamas , probably on what is today called watling island. columbus found the island of cuba and hispaniola. He then returned to spain with gold,parrots,spices, and native americans.
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after destorying the tenochitilan, cortes ordered a new city ,named mexico, to be built in its place.
