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Columbus lands in an island in the Bahamas, the island in which the Taino tribe lived, and names the island San Salvador (Holy Savior).
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Europeans needed cheap labor to work the sugar and coffee plantations of the Americas, so they turned to African slaves. Since the natives dyed working in mines or from disease, Africans became the slaves in the Americas.
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Cortes arrives the Aztec's capitol of Tenochtitlan, and is percieved as a god in armor by Montezuma and his people. Soon after Cortes defeated the Aztecs with guns, and disease.
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Francisco Pizzaro and his men successfully kidnapped and killed Atahualpa, the leader of the Incans. After their leader's death, the Incans were no match for Pizzaro, and the Incan empire fell.
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Three ships of 100 men settle in Jamestown Virginia. However during the first year after settling in Jamestown, 70% of all of the colonists died to disase, starvation, or skirmishes with the natives.
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After being persecuted for their religious beliefs in England, the Pilgrims sail across th Atlantic and land in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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After 7 years of fighting, the French lose to the English in the French Indian war, and are forced to yield all of their North American land to the British.
