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The 39 pages that link to European colonization of the Americas, each with the reason it gives.

• Atlantic slave tradeNarrower topic: Colonial expansion created markets and labor systems that sustained Atlantic enslavement.

• Immigration to the United StatesNarrower topic: European settlement laid early foundations for migration to territories that became the United States.

• Ferdinand MagellanNarrower topic: The expedition belonged to the wider imperial expansion that joined oceanic exploration to conquest and extraction.

• Fur tradeNarrower topic: Colonial expansion brought European merchants into new trading relationships and intensified competition for pelts.

• Florentine CodexNarrower topic: Its mixed authorship and missionary purpose exemplify colonial knowledge-making.

• PlantationNarrower topic: Colonial land seizure and imperial trade created conditions for plantation expansion.

• Pedro Álvares CabralNarrower topic: Cabral’s arrival was one episode within this larger process of overseas expansion.

• Jacques CartierNarrower topic: Cartier’s expeditions advanced France’s territorial claims within this larger colonial process.

• History of the United StatesNarrower topic: Colonial rule laid the groundwork for the societies that preceded the United States.

• Fall of TenochtitlanNarrower topic: The conquest advanced the broader process of Spanish colonial expansion.

• Indian WarsNarrower topic: Colonization brought land competition, shifting alliances, and armed encounters with Indigenous nations.

• American Indian WarsNarrower topic: It is the broader process that generated many of the land disputes behind these wars.

• Martín Alonso PinzónNarrower topic: Pinzón’s voyage formed part of the Spanish expansion that began colonization.

• Gaspar Corte-RealNarrower topic: His voyages preceded the sustained colonization that transformed the Americas.

• Juan Rodríguez CabrilloNarrower topic: The expedition extended Spain’s exploration and claims along the Pacific coast.

• Mary RowlandsonNarrower topic: The conflict underlying Rowlandson’s captivity arose from colonial expansion and Indigenous resistance.

• Alonso de OjedaNarrower topic: Ojeda’s ventures formed part of the earliest Spanish expansion onto the mainland.