European Colonization of the Americas (1 ottob 1500 anni – 1 gen 1800 anni)

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The voyages of Christopher Columbus lead to settlement and establishment of control of the continents of the Americas by most of the naval powers of Western Europe: Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands. Immediately before European colonization of the Americas there were between 90 and 112 million people in the Americas, a larger population than Europe at the same time. Epidemics killed up to 95% of this population by the middle of the 17th century. Eventually, most of the Western Hemisphere came under the control of Western European governments, leading to changes to its landscape, population, and plant and animal life. In the 19th century over 50 million people left Western Europe for the Americas. The revolutionary wave of the late 18th and early 19th centuries brought an end to most major European colonial power structures in the Americas in favor of new sovereign nations.

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