Norsemen
Norse Viking explorers are the first known Europeans to set foot on what is now North America. Norse journeys to Greenland and Canada are supported by historical and … See more

Roman Catholics were the first major religious group to immigrate to the New World, as settlers in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of Portugal and Spain, and later, France in New France. No other religion was tolerated and there was a concerted … See more

Throughout the South American hemisphere, there were three large regional sources of populations: Native Americans, arriving … See more

By the early to mid 16th century, even the Iberian men began to carry their wives and families to the Americas. Some women even carried out the … See more

Beginning with the first wave of European colonization, the religious discrimination, persecution, and violence toward the Indigenous peoples' native religions was systematically perpetrated by the European Christian colonists and settlers from the 15th–16th … See more

The European lifestyle included a long history of sharing close quarters with domesticated animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, dogs and various domesticated See more

Indigenous population loss following European contact directly led to Spanish explorations beyond the Caribbean islands they initially claimed and settled in the 1490s, since they required a labor force to both produce food and to mine gold. Slavery was not … See more