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In 1492 Christopher Columbus left on his first voyage. He landed in a place that he named "San Salvador" and claimed if for Spain.
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The first enslaved Africans arrived in Hispaniola in 1511.
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In 1521, a Spanish conquistador named Hernán Cortés led an expidition that ended the Aztec Empire and earned a lot of land for Spain.
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In 1533, Francisco Pizzaro and a group of Spanish conquistadors fought a small war with the Incas. The Incan people lacked horses and advanced weaponry, so Pizzaro was able to take over their empire.
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The English founded Jamestown, their first successful settlement in present day North America, in 1607.
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The English founded Plymouth, a colony, in 1620.
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The war between Great Britan and France ended in 1763, when the British emerged victorious.
