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==History== | ==History== | ||
Colonization from Northern European Nations truly started in 1004 with Leif Erikson's settlement in Newfoundland. In Norse it was called Vineland and lasted only a short period of time. After the re-discovery of North America by Christopher Columbus in 1492, Other Northern European nations carved out small little stakes of the American continents. Most of these settlements did not last (the last being the Virgin Islands which were purchased by the U.S. in 1917). | |||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
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Northern European Colonization
History
Colonization from Northern European Nations truly started in 1004 with Leif Erikson's settlement in Newfoundland. In Norse it was called Vineland and lasted only a short period of time. After the re-discovery of North America by Christopher Columbus in 1492, Other Northern European nations carved out small little stakes of the American continents. Most of these settlements did not last (the last being the Virgin Islands which were purchased by the U.S. in 1917).
