Exploration and Colonization

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1492

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Columbus reaches the Americas

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Ferdinand Magellan

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First circumnavigation of the Earth

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1607

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Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

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Hernán Cortés

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Conqueror of the Aztec Empire

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1620

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Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock

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Christopher Columbus

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Initiated European colonization of the Americas

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1776

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American Declaration of Independence

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Vasco da Gama

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First to reach India by sea

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1494

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Treaty of Tordesillas divides New World

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John Cabot

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Explored North America for England