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Hernan Cortes traveled to Mexico, where he met an Indian slave called Malinche, who helped him take down the Aztec. Both the native and Spanish culture started mixing.
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A joint-stock company received a charter from King James I that gave the settlers Englishmen rights in the New World
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Jamestown, named after King James I, was the first permanent English settlement located near the James River in Virginia.
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The production of Tobacco became an epidemic in Virginia. It led colonists to expand more land to make room for plantations, which was very good for the economy.
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At this time North American slave system consisted in enslaving Africans. Democracy was born, an assembly was held, known as the House of Burgesses. The first parliament held in America.
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After the second Anglo-Powhatan War, where the natives were defeated, the peace treaty hated the idea of Virginians coexisting with the Powhatan, which contributed to the extinction of a native tribe.