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the 13 colonies were a part of the Kingdom of Great Britain, a European country.
The "Americas" were discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. European colonies began to inhabit the Americas around the 1600's, by 1770 the thirteen European colonies in America contained around 2 million people. On July 4, 1776 the European colonies declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and there became the United States of America. This leaves the United States of America about 165 years old in 1941.
It was the United Kingdom.
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the colonies of America fought against the kingdom of great Britain.
The Kingdom of France.
Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain all had colonies in the Pacific.
The original European colony in North America were Vikings from Greenland, which was part of the Greenland-Iceland-Denmark-Norway grouping of kingdoms.Later, the following European countries established colonies of some sort in North America, in relative order of the [geographic] size of their colonies:SpainUnited Kingdom (specifically England & Scotland)FranceRussiaPortugalSwedenNetherlandsGermanyDenmarkNaturally, both the geographic and population size of these colonies varied widely over time. In terms of modern impact, the top three are the only ones which have had a significant long-term influence.
well i have two for you: to search for gold and to expand their kingdom
None at all. Mexico is on the southern tip of North America, just below the United States. The United Kingdom is on the European continent.