populate the Americas? The earliest Americans, called Paleo-Indians by archeologists, were the first people to settle America (Boyer 3). It is the popular belief among most archeologists that the Paleo-Indians had spread to most of North America by 13,000 B.C.E. From there, different groups of them migrated south into Mesoamerica and South America (Boyer 1). While the immigration of the Paleo-Indians happened at various times and for various reasons, the populating of the Americas happened because
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The European colonization of the Americas made it a better place to live. Thanks to them life is the way it is now with electronics, cars, and many other great things. During the last 500 years, Americans have accomplished many things from inventing light, to phones, to internet. We were even the first nation to send a man to the moon. None of this would have been possible if Europeans hadn't conquered America. Although, in order to accomplish all that many lives were lost. If Europeans hadn't taken
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the King & Queen of Spain A letter by Christopher Columbus in the 1490’s written to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, during Columbus’s time in the new world, depicts the rules and foundations Columbus had set to colonize the newly discovered island, named Espanola. These rules consist of how many colonists were to be allowed to enter said island, the establishment of towns, having colonists search the land for gold, and how the gold shall be divided between the towns, the
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Both France and Spain colonized North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and both depended on their Native American alliances to succeed, but Spain used a southern to northern route with large military settlements and forced religious conversions in contrast to the northern to southern expansion with small trading colonies and docile religious missionaries of the French. One of the first examples of the Spanish conquest with the assistance of Native Americans is Hernan Cortes in
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Exploration of North & South America Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer, known for being the first explorer to explore Florida. The oldest European settlement, Puerto Rico, and the Gulf Stream, were both discovered by Ponce de Leon. Most people know of de Leon because of his search for the Fountain of Youth. Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460 and died in 1521. He first became an explorer when journeyed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Americas. Finding gold and other riches
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Revolts in Latin America I. Discontent Fans the Fires • Spanish born peninsulares dominated Latin American political and social life. • Many creoles resented their second-class status. • Creoles were European-descended Latin Americans. • Mestizos were people of Native American and European descent. • Mulattoes were people of African and European descent. • Mestizos and Mulattoes were angry because they were being denied the status, wealth and power that the white people had. • Enslaved
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friendly, brown-skinned people who greeted him ‘los Indios’ – Indians. In fact, Columbus was not near India. It was not the edge of Asia that he had reached, but islands off the shores of a new continent. Europeans would soon name the continent America, but for many years they went on calling its inhabitants Indians. Only recently have these first Americans been described more accurately as ‘native Americans’ or Amerindians. There were many different groups of Amerindians. Those north of Mexico
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------------------------------------------------- Free Trade Area of the Americas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Free Trade Area of the Americas logo The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) (Spanish: Área de Libre Comercio de América [ALCA], French: Zone de libre-échange de Amérique [ZLÉA],Portuguese: Área de Livre Comércio das Américas [ALCA], Dutch: Vrijhandelszone van Amerika) was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all countries in the Americas excluding Cuba. In the latest round
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discovered the Americas. These misleading actualizations are not believed to be necessarily true. Native Americans, the people in America before Europeans, had set up a civilization
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North America, part of the Americas, was named after Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. Though all of the regions have very different histories, the people all most likely originated from the same area. Nomadic civilizations first migrated through the Bering Strait into Canada. These first people in Canada included the Inuit, the Iroquois, and the Sioux. Europeans first discovered the continent when they reached what is now Greenland and continued traveling south. Jacques Cartier named the country
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