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    The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the...
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    is no evidence of any Norse settlement on mainland North America lasting beyond the 11th century. The Norse exploration of North America has been subject...
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    The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by...
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  • Thumbnail for European colonization of the Americas
    During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late...
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    The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the...
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    Welsh settlement in the Americas was the result of several individual initiatives to found distinctively Welsh settlements in the New World. It can be...
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  • The genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is divided into two distinct periods: the initial peopling of the Americas during about 20...
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    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher...
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  • Thumbnail for 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. It...
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    to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian colonial possessions in the Americas are collectively...
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  • Thumbnail for Indigenous peoples of the Americas
    The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples that inhabited the Americas before the arrival of European settlers in the 15th century and the...
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    Republic was the first stable Spanish settlement and town in the Americas established in December 1493. The site is 42 km west of the city of Puerto Plata...
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    began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere...
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  • Thumbnail for Pre-Columbian era
    In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization...
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    colonization of the Americas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in the Americas belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal...
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    which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—or both—were made by people from Africa...
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    subdivisions in the history of the Americas spanning the time from the original settlement of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic until the European colonization...
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  • Thumbnail for Dutch colonization of the Americas
    The Netherlands began its colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization...
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    Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories. They are populated...
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    Circuit of the Americas (COTA) is a Grade 1 FIA-specification 3.426-mile (5.514 km) motor racing track and facilities located in Austin, Texas, in the United...
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  • list of the extreme points of The Americas, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's...
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  • Thumbnail for Native Americans in the United States
    Samoan Americans and Chamorros. The European colonization of the Americas that began in 1492 resulted in a precipitous decline in the size of the Native...
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    The history of the Americas begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an ice age. These groups are generally believed...
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  • Thumbnail for Basque colonization of the Americas
    The settlement of Basques in the Americas was the process of Basque emigration and settlement in the New World. Thus, there is a deep cultural and social...
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    colonization of the Americas comprised a number of failed or abandoned Scottish settlements in North America; a colony at Darien on the Isthmus of Panama;...
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    Clovis culture (category Archaeological cultures of North America)
    lends support to the Beringia or coastal Pacific hypotheses that they were responsible for the initial settlement of the Americas. The Clovis culture is...
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  • long before European settlement of the Americas, though the phrase emerged in English by the 17th century. An early mention of the practice is to an actual...
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  • Thumbnail for Indigenous languages of the Americas
    The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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    The Curonian colonization of the Americas was performed by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest state to colonise...
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    According to the most generally accepted theory of the settlement of the Americas, migrations of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via...
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