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In 1720, the Encomienda system was abolished. Using this system, the Spanish basically said the Spaniards in the Americas could make the indigenous people into slaves. This was mostly used in Peru. Once the system was abolished it led to the Spanish killing most of the Native population because they tried to convert these natives to Christianity.

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On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro (Spanish Explorer) and his army kill the Incan emperor and conquer their land, and enslave the native people. This was significant because it led to the collapse of the Inca empire.

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Hernan Cortes, alongside local tribes that were Aztec rivals, conquered their capital city of Tenochtitlan in 1521. This was a key step in the Spanish colonization of the New World because this was the most powerful Mesoamerican kingdom of all time.

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In 1607, Jamestown was founded by just over 100 English men. Because of drought, famine, disease, and the native people it was hard to maintain the colony. The colony was able to pull through and survive. It was the first English colony in the New World and opened the doors to more colonies, new cash crops like tobacco, and slaves from Africa to pick the tobacco.

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Hernan Cortes was a Spanish Conquistador. With the help of Aztec rivals they were able to take down the Aztec Empire. The disease his men brought killed a lot of the native people and he enslaved the rest. He also captured a large portion of land in modern day Mexico.

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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. What Ferdinand did was organize the Spanish expeditions of the East Indies. This caused the first Circumnavigation of the world. He was significant because he was the first European explorer to cross the Pacific Ocean.

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Henry Hudson was an English explorer. Henry was hired by the Dutch East India Company to look for a north western passage to Asia. He didn't find one but instead explored a large portion of the North Eastern part of North America. The Hudson river in New York is named after him because he helped to establish NYC.

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Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer. He was most known for being the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe. Unlike Ferdinand Magellan, Drake lived to see the trip all the way through and made it back. Additionally, he raided Spanish ships to have enough supplies.

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The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed in 1494. This treaty basically stated that the right side of the red vertical line would go to Portugal and the left side would go to Spain. This led to Portugal being almost irrelevant in the new world due to the limited amount of land and the Spanish to get a lot of new land.

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The French and Indian war was from 1756-1763. This war was the English fighting the French and Natives. The war started out poorly for the English, but soon was turned around. After all the fighting, the English acquired Florida, gave the Spanish Louisiana, and took the French Canadian territories. This war would be the cause for a chain of events that would lead up to the Revolutionary war and the American getting their independence.

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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He was hired by Spain to try and find a path West to China/India to trade spices and gold easier. Columbus "discovered" America. It has now been found that both China and the Vikings found the Americas before Columbus, but didn't colonize the land.

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Minster, Christopher. “Colonial Spain and the Horrors of the Encomienda System.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/spains-american-colonies-encomienda-system-2136545.