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The first Europeans to arrive in what now is Massachusetts were the Puritans aboard the Mayflower. Although they were headed for Virginia, their ship went off-course and drifted to the north. They finally made landfall on Cape Cod in 1610.
The Portuguese were the first to make contact in 1514 off the coast of China.
Most people believe that they were the many explores who came to make their countries rich or find a way to Asia. Although, they weren't even the first Europeans. The Vikings were the First Europeans. The first native Americans to cross the land bridge were the first people
I think that African-Americans were brought over on boats and were captured by the Europeans.
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The first Europeans to arrive in what now is Massachusetts were the Puritans aboard the Mayflower. Although they were headed for Virginia, their ship went off-course and drifted to the north. They finally made landfall on Cape Cod in 1610.
The First Europeans. The first Europeans to arrive in North America -- at least the first for whom there is solid evidence -- were Norse, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985.
The first Europeans (and from the US and Australia as well) arrived soon after James Cook had publicized the existence of the seals on the coast of New Zealand. These were soon followed by the Whalers, who need a more capital-intensive industry.