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Meso American Empires like the Maya, Inca, and Aztec dominated the Americas. These empires were advanced civilizations who lived successfully on their own and had great achievements in infrastructure, architecture, writing, farming, and hunting.

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West African empires were powerful civilizations. This is important for history of colonial America because people from this area were kidnapped for the slave trade.

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Year: 1300 - Native Americans have been living in the Americas for 12000 years

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Year: 1300 - Native Americans have been living in the Americas for 12000 years

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Indigenous Americans had been living in the Americas long before any Europeans. They had thriving civilizations with technology, science, mathematics, systems of writing, and all other characteristics of empires.

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Year: 1492 - Columbus arrives in the New World

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Year: 1492 - Columbus arrives in the New World

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Christopher Columbus arrives in the Americas. After Columbus arrives, more Europeans follow him.

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Columbian Exchange was the exchange of food, cash crops, people, and diseases across the Atlantic ocean. The Columbian exchange magnified the impact of colonization because entire biological landscapes were changed in the "Old World" and "New World"