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Columbus sailed west from Spain looking for Asia but instead found the Americas
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The first African slaves arrive in the Americas for European colonists beggining an era of huge slave trade with the Americas.
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Cortes conquers Aztec Empire becasue of advanced weaponry, aid of traitors and rivals of Aztecs, and disease.
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Francisco Pizzaro conquers Incan by ambushing and capturing their king Atahualpa and then destroying him and the empire.
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Chartered by King James, a group of colonists from a london company create the first permanent English settlement, located in Virginia.
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In Massachusetts, the pilgrims, persecuted fir their beliefs in Britain, create the second English colony for religious freedom.
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British defeat French in war for territory and get control of eastern part of North America.