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The region that became Arkansas was unknown to Europeans until the 1540s. Fifty years after Christopher Columbus landed in the Western Hemisphere, the European exploration of Arkansas began. The first settlement was not founded for another 140 years, and the first permanent settlement forty years after that. Throughout the colonial era, Arkansas underwent dramatic demographic changes. At the time of the first Spanish explorers in the 1540s, Arkansas was a land of heavily populated villages and extensive farm fields. By the time of the first French expeditions in the 1670s, Arkansas was sparsely populated with isolated villages and tribes but with an abundance of wild game and other resources. The focus of the colonial era was not on the promotion of substantial Immigration but on the exploitation of wild game for trade. By the end of the colonial era, Arkansas had attracted individuals and families of diverse races and ethnicities. People of French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Anglo-American, and African descent joined the Indian peoples of Arkansas and a myriad of tribes from across the continent.

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People were in Arkansas during the Pleistocene epoch, but their arrival date and lifestyles are largely unknown.

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Arkansas was first settled by the French then Spain, French again and finnaly it was part of the Louisiana Purchace.

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The Arkansas Post was the first European settlement in present-day Arkansas. It was established as a French trading post in 1686.

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