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225 million years ago, what was once a huge continent, started drifting apart into continents.
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A land bridge formed 35,000 years ago due to the melting of the ice. This bridge connected Asia with North America, and so it was useful for the people in Asia to migrate to the Americas.
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People populating the Americas, such as the Pueblos, the Iroquois, the Mound Builders, the Mayans, the Incas, and the Aztec, became hunter gatherers. But then, they settled down as farmers to grow corn
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The first people from Europe to get to the New World were the Vikings from Norway. They left without any written record, so historians have little information about them.
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The explorer Christopher Columbus wanted to get to the East by sailing West. Instead of reaching Asia, he reached the Americas. Later on, the transfer of plants ,animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World, was named the Columbian Exchange.
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Even though other Europeans, such as Portuguese, had settled in the Americas, the Spanish remained the dominant group. The Spanish destroyed the Aztecs and Incas and kept their land. Later on, other countries decided that they wanted the success of the Spanish.
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Even though for most part of the 1600 North America was unclaimed, in 1607, the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia. In the mid 17th century, England had claimed several West Indian Islands.
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As the English, kept spreading along the Americas, the first colony in Virginia and it becomes a royal colony
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As the English grew sugar or different plantations, labor was needed. Because the Natives were unable to be used, Africans were brought in involuntary. These slaves were working for little or no pay in poor conditions.
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Years later, there was plenty of colonies funded by the English in other places such as Maryland, Carolina, and Georgia.