Which faction are you most interested in historically?

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Divinius- I don't mean to flog a dead horse here, but you are taking a rather Anglocentric view on America. Actually, I would rather say that the Spanish and French were the founders of America, and that the British, for the most part, came later.

Hey! I think you forgot about Portugal? Actually forget the French, it is Portugal and Spain. The treaty of Tordesillas clearly divided the world between Spanish and Portuguese rule. Before the official discovery of Brazil, the Spanish had the right to the hole continent of America as it was on their part of the share. After seeing that Brazil was not an island and that there was a lot of land there the Portuguese moved to change the treaty so as to give Portugal a big part of South America.

Of course before Columbus got to the Domenican Republic and Cuba, other european navigators had already sailed to America. Some of them French, some Spanish but most of them Portuguese.

All that debate is endless as "founders" is a very relative concept. The Vikings got to America long before the "Age of Discovery". Not to mention that the indian population in America (North, South and Central) descend from Asia. So the Asians got to America probably before anyone else.

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All that debate is endless as "founders" is a very relative concept. The Vikings got to America long before the "Age of Discovery". Not to mention that the indian population in America (North, South and Central) descend from Asia. So the Asians got to America probably before anyone else.

It's thought that the Native Americans conducted trade with Asian peoples.