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Columbus sailed the ocean blue! Christopher Columbus was in search of a way to reach Asia traveling west from Europe but instead accidentally ran into present day Bahamas. He was the first European to discover what was soon to become the Americas.

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The movement of people, animals, and supplies to America also known as the Columbian exchange occurred later on in 1492 as many Europeans were eager to see and expand in the newly found world.

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The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed to separate the newly founded Portuguese Empire from Spain. This was the beginning of separation the New World gained from Spain.

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The Encomienda system was established. This system consisted of labor through indigenous peoples or those who weren't Christians who worked for conquerors in exchange for military protection and education.

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Hernan Cortez invades Mexico in search of wealth. The Aztec leader did not see Cortez and his men as enemies and let them into the city. Although Cortez and his men once inside looted and diminished much of the wealth from the Aztec capital. The Aztec capital soon died off from disease brought over.

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The trading of slaves was first officially recorded and begun in 1525 where the first slave ship departed for the Americas from Africa.

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Francisco Pizzaro a Spanish man put together an army to invade an area of South America that was controlled by the Incas. The Incas were at the time an advanced native American group that was taken over quickly and controlled by Pizzaro's Spanish army.

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The Spanish government authorizes the expedition for explorer Coronado to travel North (towards present day New Mexico) in search of wealth or in his eyes "the seven cities of gold"

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Bartolome de Las Casas was a Spanish landowner priest and bishop who in the year 1550 was one of the first to display his opposing view towards the enslavement of native Americans. He worked hard against governments and fought against African slavery until his death .

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Tobacco, a cash crop found in the New World. Was sent back to the English motherland in the year 1555. Although this crop was very profitable both in the New World and the motherland and boosted the economy because of its profitability it lead to increased slave labor in order to produce the crop in greater amounts.

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The Spanish in the year 1565 gained site of Florida and immediately saw opportunity to settle in the New World. They sailed Ships into the coast and established the first Spanish settlement in North America named Saint Augustine. This settlement prove to be very important to the Spanish because of its very important position of trade.

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In 1587 what was to be the very first English settlement in Northern America was founded. Although this small colony was not the first permanent settlement in the new world. The Colony gained the name "The Lost Colony" after the small colony disappeared due to unknown reasons. There are many theories as to what happened but nothing certain.