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When Columbus reached land, he thought that he had landed in the East Indies. However, he ended up landing in the Caribbean. He was the first European explorer to reach the Americas.
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The enslavement of Africans would foverer change the nations of the Americas and Africa for better or for worse.
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One european leader and approximately 600 men brought down the advanced Aztec Empire using guns, germs, and steel.
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Pizarro with only 200 men conquered the Incan Empire and killed its ruler Atahualpa, who was viewed as a god.
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Jamestown was the first successful colony that the English created in North America.
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Plymouth was the second English colony in the Americas and was founded by Pilgrims.
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The English won the French and Indian War and gained massive amounts of the French's territory in the Americas.