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Columbus, an Italian working for the Spanish, was trying to find a trade route to India when he accidentaly landed in the Bahamas on an island which he named San Salvador.
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In 1511, the Portugese go to Africa, and bring slaves to their colonies in the Americas in huge slave ships. Slave trade will soon become a major industry, and it will earn the Portugese a lot of money.
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Hernan Cortes was a Spanish Conquistador who defeated the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs thought he and his fellow Spaniards were gods. The emperor, Montezuma, gave him a lot of gold, and then he and his army brought down the Aztec Empire.
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Francisco Pizzaro was a Spanish Conquistador who defeated the Incan Empire with very few men because he had horses, and he ambushed the Incan army.
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In 1607, The Virginia Company of London, sent people to Virginia to form a colony. Jamestown became the first permanent English colony in the Americas.
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Plymouth was an English colony in what is now Massachusetts created by Puritan Pilgrims who wanted to escape the Church of England. The Pilgrims arrived in a ship named the Mayflower.
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The British (in America) fought the French (in America) and the Indians for land. The British won, and all the French were left with were a couple of islands off South America. The British took all of New France.
