The first European contact with native populations in the Americas is typically considered to have occurred in 1492 when Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean islands.
The indigenous people living in Newfoundland before European contact were the Beothuk. They were a First Nations people who primarily inhabited the island of Newfoundland in Canada. The Beothuk culture and population declined due to interactions with Europeans, including diseases and conflict.
The first known European to have reached Easter Island was the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen in 1722. However, it is believed that Polynesian settlers arrived on the island hundreds of years prior to European contact.
The first organized expedition to search for El Dorado was in 1541 when Gonzalo Pizarro, the younger half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, led 340 soldiers and about 4000 natives in search of it.
The first European settlement in the Americas was established by the Spanish in present-day Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1496.
First Nations people began interacting with European explorers after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The interactions increased as more European expeditions reached the Americas in the following centuries.
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The first European contact was is 1493.
The arrival of Europeans to the America introduced the new diseases to natives such as the Iroquios. The natives had a weak immune system to these diseases because they and their ancestors were never exposed to them before.
Probably in 1741.
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Native Americans, South American Natives, Natives in the Islands of Caribbean, Natives of the Philippines, Natives of Polynesia, Natives of Hawaii, Natives of New Zealand, Natives of China and Japan.
The first EUROPEAN to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas was Balboa. Presumably the natives had noticed it once or twice before.
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