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The American revolution

Natives

Scholars used to think of native American cultures as relatively static.

The native American people entirely reject the scholarly explanations for their origins.

Genetic and skeletal (especially dental) evidence suggests special affinities between native Americans and the peoples of Siberia.

Colonizers

During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Europeans developer the maritime technology and imperial ambitions to explore and dominate the world’s oceans.

Between the 1450 and 1500, European mariners, in dozens of voyages, found the Americas.

The discovery and exploitation of the Americas and the route to Asia transformed Europe.

New Spain

During the sixteenth century, the Spanish created the most formidable empire in European history.

Conquering and colonizing vast stretches of the Americas.

By the sixteenth-century Spanish empire terrified its European rivals, which felt vulnerable to Spanish domination.