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Christopher Colubus set sail in search of a western trade rote to Asia, but instead discovered the Americas.
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Originally Native Americans were enslaved, but when they began to die of disease, colonists started to enslave Africans.
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The Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes conquers the Aztec empire after initially being recieved as a god.
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Another Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizzaro conquers the Incan empire in Peru.
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Jamestown was the first surviving British settlement in the Americas.
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The Pilgrims came to America and settled in Plymouth because the felt religously oppressed by the Church of England
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The French and Indian War was actually a war over new land in between the French and the British, with different Native American groups fighting on both sides.