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In 1000 A.D. the Vikings reached North America, approximately five centries before Christopher Columbus.
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The Renaissance was a cultural renewal of a passion for art and sciences, it began in Florence, Italy.
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In 1418 Prince Henry established a school navigation in Portugal.
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In 1441 was the start of the African slave trade, it was started by Portugal
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Columbus set sail for his first journey to find a new trade route with Asia.
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Columbus reaches San Salvador after more than a months journey.
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Seven years after Columbus' vovage Amerigo Vespucci sails for a new route to the Indies.
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Ponce de leon visited Florida on a mission of exploration.
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The Cortes conquered the Aztecs in the Spanish conquest.
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Pizarro and his brothers landed in peru with permission from the Spanish Monarchy and conquered the Incas
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Verrazzano was an Italian who land in North America between Newfoundland and the Carolinas.
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The St. Augustine colony was founed in Florida by Europeans.
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The Roanoke colony was one of the first formed in the new world, but this colony disappeared without any idea of what happened.
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The period of art and sciences, there we got a lot of the famous paintings, came to an end.
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Jamestown was the birthplace of a new world, it was also the first colony to survive in the world.
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de Champlain, a french sailor, set up quebec which fell do to diseease, but was later replenished.
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From April to October Henry Hutson sailed the Hutson River
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Henry Hudson sailed the Hudson bay
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de Champlain sets up permanent settlements in Montreal, which was the first permanent settlemant in canada
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The Mayflower Compact was the first that established a free government.
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The dutch build Fort Orange and New Amsterdam, which is now New York City.
