Power and competition for land.
ok well first of all you should really look at a map. COME ON WHY ARE YOU ASKING THIS!!!!!! anyway...god i am in shock right now that you really asked this and i am wasting my time on you...ITS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
Christopher Columbus is credited with being the first European explorer to reach the Americas in 1492. However, there is evidence that the Vikings had reached North America around the year 1000.
Africa is the continent that comes first in the alphabet.
Antarctica is considered the last continent to be discovered by humans. The first confirmed sighting of the continent occurred in 1820.
The first continent is generally believed to be Pangaea, which formed around 335 million years ago. Pangaea eventually broke apart into the continents we know today due to plate tectonics.
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
no there were Indian tribes
The first African slaves used by Europeans were used by the Portuguese, on the island of Sao Tome, to grow sugarcane. The Spanish were the first to use African slaves in the Americas (in the Caribbean), and the first English colony to use African slaves was Jamestown, Virginia (which was the first English colony in the New World). However, long before Europeans used African slaves, the Africans had slaves who were African!
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
True.
Atticus
No, the Viking, Eric the Red and his crew were the first Europeans on the American continent.
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They set up a first free African city
Australians speak English because the first Europeans to settle the continent were the British.
There were no East African civilizations at the time of the first European visitors, East African people were tribal, and mostly nomadic.