1492 -
Discovery of the New World |
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| Commissioned by the King of Spain, as it was, Columbus set
on his famous voyage to find a passage to India, but instead found the Americas,
where he claimed it in the name of Spain, killed the natives, took their
gold, spread disease and converted them to Catholicism. |
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