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The Italian cartographer Amerigo Vespucci was the first who suggested that those lands were part of a new continent
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Ferdinand and Isabella signed with the Capitulations of Santa Fe, which stipulated the conditions that make the journey to the eastern territories. August: the three ships set sail expeditionary from Palos de la Frontera (Huelva). October: up to a number of Caribbean islands. It takes place Columbus' discovery of the territory that would be called America
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The three ships left the port of Palos (Huelva) on August 3, 1492 and, after a stopover in the Canary Islands and more than two months of hard journey, they landed on the island of San Salvador in the Caribbean. thought he had reached India, in Asia, so called "Indians" to its inhabitants
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Colón started back and comes back to the harbor club in March of that year
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Cristobal Colón died May 20, 1506, unaware that he had discovered a new continent between Europe and Asia.
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Some years later, in 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, the service of Charles I, took the first round the world
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The major pre-Columbian peoples were the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire. They also stressed the Maya
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The Incas lived in the highlands of Peru and were farmers. Their main food was potatoes and corn. They grew as well, pumpkins, tomatoes, peanuts and cotton
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The Aztecs lived in Mexico Plateau and were ruled by an emperor. Most were farmers and grew corn, tomatoes, beans, avocado, vanilla and cocoa, which made the chocolate. They were also skilled craftsmen and potters about
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Spain exported to the new continent some agricultural products (wheat, wine ...), animals (cows, horses and sheep), textiles, weapons, and instruments of cultivation (plowing)
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America imported minerals (gold and silver), sugar and other agricultural products that were previously desconocidosw in the Peninsula: cocoa, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, pineapple, etc ...
