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About 15,000-40,000 years ago, the first Native Americans migrated from Asia across the Bering Strait land bridge.
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Bartolomeu Dias traveled around the souther tip of Africa from 1487 to 1488.. Vasco da Gamma reached India in 1498, which earned him a very high trade.
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Actually thinking he was in the Indies, Columbus called the Native Americans Indians. He forced Christianity upon them. Columbus started trade route between the Americas and the Europe-Columbian Exchange.
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The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of ideas, culture, diesease, animals, and people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. This also opened the flood gates for bringing slave labor to the Americas.
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The Conquistadors were: Cortez, Ponce de Leon, Coronado. Conquistadors were Spanish invaders.
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