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Colombus set sail under the Spanish to find a route to India, but instead found the Americas and was the first to settle there.
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Because the Europeans found that the Native Americans were efficient enough, they imported Africans for slave labor. They were tightly packed on ships and brought to the Americas.
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Hernando Cortés conquered the Aztecs by tricking Montezuma II into letting him into their main city, Tenochtitlan. Cortés took advantage of him and then took over Tenochtitlan.
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Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who took over the Inca by meeting with their leader, Atahulapa and tricking him and then killing him.
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Jamestown was the English's first succesful settlment located in Virginia. This is how the British Empire got started.
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Plymouth is a colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with the Massachusetts Bay colony.
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The French and Indian War was part of a larger battle between Great Britain and France called the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War was fought for 9 years, from 1754 to 1763.
