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Early European explorers came in contact with the first peoples of the New World and reported back home. Organized religions, always competing with one another, struggling for more followers in order to increase their wealth and power base, saw unlimited opportunity for converting pagans into believers and followers.

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To make people cathlic.

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Who was the first person to come to the Americas?

The polynesian in record were possibly the first people to come to the Americas in about 7000 BC.


Who were the first Europeans to come to the Americas?

the vikings


Who were the first Europeans to come to Americas?

the vikings


What way did the first people come to Americas?

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Where did the first people arrive in the Americas come from?

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How did the first people come to the Americas and how did they live once they were here?

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Where did the first inhabiters of the Americas come from?

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As slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.


How did people first come to live in the Americas?

they came across a ice-land bridge from Asia


How did man come to the Americas?

The first of mankind came to the Americas by crossing a land-bridge that connected modern day Alaska to modern day Russia. This bridge was called "Beringia" and was used by nomads in search of food that led them to the Americas.


What were some good things that happend with the missionaires and Indians?

that they became friends and worked together.