When looking at the map, what can you tell about the colonial european settlements? a) all of the settlements were in the south. b) all of the settlements were along major rivers. c) all settlements tried to avoid the indian settlements. d) all of the settlements were close to major bodies of water.

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The European conquest of the Americas represents the history of the agreement and establishment of control of the regions of the Americas by most of the naval authorities of Europe. Systematic European settlement began in 1492 when a Spanish company headed by the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route to the Far East but accidentally arrived in what came to be known to Europeans as the New World. Running aground on the north part of Hispaniola on 5 December 1492, which the Taino people had occupied since the 7th century, the site became the first European settlement in the Americas.

the two colonies had the earliest laws mandating religious tolerance.