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300 million years ago, a supercontinent by the name of Pangea was a continent connecting all of the landmasses on Earth. But when the supercontinent broke apart, it separated the landmasses creating several different continents (The Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antartica).

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35,000 years ago, a great Ice Age froze some of the world's ocean into glaciers. The creation of glaciers caused for the sea levels to drop revealing the Bering Land Bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska. This bridge caused nomadic hunters and many migrators to follow the bridge and find themselves in the Americas.

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The immigrants of the Americas began to split into separate tribes: The Incas in Peru, Mayans in Central America, Aztecs in Mexico. Each tribe followed different ideas and rituals, for example the Aztecs offered human sacrifices to favor their gods. But these tribes were creating advanced agricultural practices.

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While the immigrants were in the Americas, Europeans for the most part were still unaware of the Americas. Seafarers from Scandinavia stumbled upon a part of North America but no nation supported the expedition to further explore the discovered shoulder of America.

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Italian seafarer, Christopher Columbus, was funded by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella I of Spain to go on an expedition. This voyage wasn't meant to find the Americas but rather find new water routes to India and other nations. But instead his voyage sparked the colonization of the Americas.

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After the historic discovery of the Americas, nations from the Old World wanted to expand into the New World and thus began the trading between the Old World and the New World. An example of the trade was the New World natives had planted tobacco, tomatoes, beans, etc. which evolved the European diet for these items were new to the Old World. The exchange further consisted of the trading of people, food, animals, disease, and so on.

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With the discovery of the New World still fresh, Europeans realizes that the Americas held new riches and materials. In 1494, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the New World territories. Spain gained majority of the of the territories of America and Portugal received territory in Africa and Asia.

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The treaty allowed for Spain to secure their claim to the discovery of the New World made by Columbus. But this treaty divided the New World into territories between Spain and Portugal. While Spain got the majority of the part of the New World, Portugal was compensated with territories in Africa and Asia.

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A grant from the Spanish Empire, called the encomienda, allowed for leaders and conquistadors to take territories of the Americas with free labor from the Indians in order to extract gold and wealth from America.

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In 1519, Hernán Cortés sailed from Cuba with hundreds of men, ships, and horses with their eyes set on Mexico. During his travels, Cortés rescued a Spanish castaway who was a slave to the Mayan-speaking Indians and another slave who knew Mayan and Nahuatl which were both languages if the Aztec rulers in Mexico. With these two, Cortés was able to learn about tales of gold and wealth stored in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán.

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After being welcomed into Moctezuma, their greed for wealth began to upset the Aztecs and on June 30th, the Aztecs attacked. Cortéz retaliated and sieged the city until it surrendered in 1521. Smallpox epidemic spread while this conquest taking a toll on the Valley of Mexico. Aztecs were under Spanish rule for three centuries and temples were destroyed for the Christian cathedrals of Mexico City.

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After the end of the Aztecs, conqueror Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas of Peri

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There were many seafarers and conquistadors who traveled to America and explore who met a deadly faith (Ferdinand Magellan in 1519 slain by inhabitants of the Philippines or Juan Ponce de Leon who explored Florida meeting his faith by an Indian arrow). But another case was when Spain allowed for Francisco Coronado's expedition to explore northern parts of the Americas to find wealth and riches. He was the first European to discover the Grand Canyon but instead of finding cities of gold like he hoped, he only found adobe pueblos.

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The Spaniards abused the people of Pueblo and in the Battle of Acoma, the Spanish were victorious and cut off feet of the surviving Indians. The Spaniards throughout history of the discovery of the New World treated the natives of the World harshly and looked for wealth and riches to best suit themselves.

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In 1607, the English began a colony in North America, Jamestown, on the bank of James River in Virginia.