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Christophor Columbus sets sail in the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria. He reached America on October 12,1942. Columbus landed in the Caribbean ,but thought he landed in the West Indies. Therefore he called the people who lived in that area Indians.
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John Cabot crossed the North Atlantic and explored the region of Newfoundland.
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Columbus dies and he still thinks that he has reached Asia but he has not.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to set his eyes on the Pacific Ocean.
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Juan Ponce de Leon set sailed north in search of a big island which was then called La Florida
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Spain brought about 4,000 Africans to the Caribbean. By 1500's there were about 2,000 per year
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Hernando Cortes set out to sail from Cuba to Mexico with almost 500 Soliders.
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Portuguese explorer Ferdihand Magellan set out to the Atlantic Passage way
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Cortes marched on the Aztec Capitial City which is Tenochtitian.
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searched for a passage for King Francis 1 of France.
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Sweden, Denmark, and several other European states. Split with the Roman Catholic Church.
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Pizarro landed on the coast of Peru in 1531 to search for the Incas.
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Pizarro took the 170 soliders through the jungle into the heart of the Inca empire. Pizarro then took the ruler for ransom.
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Estevanico set out with a group to what is now Western New Mexico.He died and the others returned to Mexico City.
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He died but he was succeeded by his son Edward who only ruled short time.
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Elizibeth the 1st becomes Queen of England.
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King Phillip assembled 130 warships known as the Spanish Armada
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Champlain took 11 voyages to explorer and map the lands around the St. Lawrence River.
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Henry Hudson explored the river that was named after him which is the Hudson River in New York.
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He explored the river that bears his name in present day New York.
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Roger Williams was forced to leave Mass. Bay in 1635.
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Roger Williams founded Providence Rhode Island because he was blown off couse on there ship.
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New Jersey was founded in 1665 because the southern part of New York split of to make a new colony.
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During the 1650 the death rate fell. In 1640 about 10,000 settelers lived in Virginia. By 1670 40,000 lived there.
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In 1675 he organized 1000 westerners and started attacking Native Americans.
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Penn arrived in his colony in 1682 and he wrote the frame of goverment for Pennsyvania.