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European colonisation in Oceania

  • Age of DiscoveryIn 1492, the joint rulers of Castile and Aragon conquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada. This military victory removed a source of African goods that had…
  • New WorldThe Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci wrote a letter in the spring of 1503 that changed how Europeans understood their place on Earth.