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This event is the second most important event because if Columbus hadn't accidentally found the New World, then the land there wouldn't have been claimed
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Cortes and his Indian allies captured and demolished Tenochtitlan. This event was the eighth most important because, without the conquering of the Aztecs, the Spanish's empire wouldn't have expanded
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Jamestown was the first permanent colony in America. It faced many hardships but turned out okay in the end
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The elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia.
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An English colonial venture in America at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by John Smith.
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen
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a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in America from 1638 to 1655, established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power.
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The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. It has the features of a written constitution and is considered by some as the first written constitution in the Western tradition.
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An armed conflict in 1675–1678 between Indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their Native American allies.
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Charles II dies so his brother James becomes the new king of England in his place.
