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jan 1, 1492 - Christopher Columbus

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Columbus encounters an island in the Caribbean he later named Hispaniola. This would begin an exchange of goods and biology between the Americas and the Eastern Hemisphere.

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jan 1, 1492
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~ 534 years ago