European Exploration and Settlement
See also: European colonization of the Americas and The First European colonization waveThe discovery of the "New World" by Europeans explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries and subsequent Columbian Exchange profoundly changed the direction of technological development in North America. State-sponsored explorers like the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in the New World with technology unknown to the native inhabitants—caravels, domesticated horses, iron armour and swords.
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