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Everybody knows that Christopher Columbus, Cristobal Colon, discovered America in 1482.

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We will talk about how this happened and what happened afterwards.

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Columbus was an Italian sailor and explorer, and he thought the Earth was round.

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he wanted to go to India but traveling westwards at that time most of the

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people believed that the earth was flat so when he asked the monarch of

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Portugal for money to start his trip they said no sorry you can't go to India

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sailing to the West. When Portugal rejected his expedition, Columbus asked

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the Spanish monarchs, the Catholic monarchs. Although Fernando was not very

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convinced, Isabel liked the idea, so Catholic monarchs gave Columbus

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everything he needed to start the trip. On the 1st of August of 1492 Columbus

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left Vuelva. He arrived to the new continent on the 12th of October. He traveled with three

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caravans called La Niña, La Pinta and the Santa María. When the Spaniards landed in

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America, they found a different group of people living there. The main civilizations were

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the Mayas, who were organized in independent cities. Each city had a leader. They believed

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in more than one god. They were very good at mathematics and astronomy. The Aztecs had an

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emperor and they also believed in different gods. Incas believed in gods like the moon god

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and the sun god and they believed their emperor was the son of the sun god. Columbus' first trip

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to America de España wanted to conquer the whole territory. Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec

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Empire and the Maya cities between the years 1519 and 1521, and Francisco Pizarro conquered

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the Incas Empire in 1533.

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When Spain conquered most of the American continent, became the most powerful empire

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Europe and trade increases because Spaniards brought horses and coffee to

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America and they took potatoes, tomato, cocoa, gold and silver from the new

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continent and they brought them to Spain. Spaniards also brought to America the

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Spanish language and the Christian religion.