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The Italian explorer and his crew landed on the island in the Bahamas.
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This treaty is signed dividing the territories of Africa, Asia, and modern day Brazil between Portugal and SPain.
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Juan Ponce de Leon was looking for the "fountain of youth" and he ended up exploring Florida, which he thought was an island.
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Hernan Cortes set sail from Cuba with sixteen horses and a couple hundred men. He was bound for Mexico.
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Hernan Cortes laid seige to Tenochtitlan, and the it surrendered on August 13.
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Magellan's last remaining vessel completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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Francisco Pizarro crushed the Inca people. He took a lot of their gold, silver, and other valuables.
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Jacque Cartier traveled hundreds of miles up the Saint Lawrence River.
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In the Battle of Acoma, the pueblo people had one foot cut off if they survived.
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About a hundred English, male settlers got off of the boat and called this place in Virginia Jamestown.
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John Rolfe perfects the methods for growing and curing the tobacco. He eliminated much of the sour taste.
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Lord Baltimore was a prominent Catholic who founded Maryland. He wanted the financial profits and a place for his fellow Catholics to live in.
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More than a quarter of a million African slaves were imported in this time. By 1700, the black slaves outnumbered the white settlers four to one.
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The Spanish people begin to establish settlements in Texas
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The final of the thirteen colonies was founded by James Ogelthorpe. It was founded 126 years after the first, Virginia.
