In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many European countries began to explore the wider world by sea, for various reasons. New technology made long voyages possible for the first time. Thus began a period of several hundred years when Europeans first explored, then took over, much of the rest of the world.
In this chapter, we will focus on South America – how civilisations there were conquered and how this had a lasting impact on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The European explorers/
conquistadores
The colonised American peoples
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