Vikings came in 1000 AD, 500 years before Colombus. They founded seven Colonies in Newfoundland, but they died out. Christopher Colombus came for the wealth in 1492 to find an easier way to Asia without going over land. Colombus wasn't all nice. He started the trans atlantic slave trade. He raped and murdered people in the name of Christianity. Ruropean diseases killed many Native Americans because they didn't have immunity. Fransico Fernando sailed for Spain. He helped get a lot of land for Spain. Spain and Portugal were big names back in the day. They had disputes and they turned to the Pope. The Pope then made the line of Demarcation to seperate the land to be settled. Sir Fransis Great an explorer that was trying to sail across the southern tip of South America but was captured by the Spanish. Jamestown was the first permanant English settlement in the Americas. They came for the gold. Canibalism took place because they didn't plan ahead and plant food. Still there today. King James granted the the permission to send people over. Captain John Smith was the reason the many survived. The Mayflower was one of the three ships to come over to America with the Pilgrams. It took 66 days to get across. Two people died. They were leaving so they could have religious freedom. Native Americas had medicines before the Europeans came over made of minerals and things. 10-90 million Native Americans were here to begin with that came over the Bering Bridge that was during the ice age. The mystery of Roanok is that everyone was gone. The Europeans traded manufactured things like guns and beads and blankets. The Native Americans gave animal skins and crops and natural things. Horses were first brought by the Spanish. We are now watching the first episode of America: The Story of Us.
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