We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first. Five hundred years before Columbus, a daring band of Vikings led by Leif Eriksson set foot in North America and established a settlement.
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Economic Impact
Workers' wages skyrocketed as arable land lay fallow; landlords, desperate for people to work their land, were forced to renegotiate farmers' wages. Famine followed. Widespread death eroded the strict hereditary class divisions that had, for centuries, bound peasants to land owned by local lords.
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<h2>Germany is the answer</h2>
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<em>=>Germany, by far, was hit hardest. The Treaty of Versailles laid the blame and financial burden of the war at the feet of the German government. As a result, Germany experienced some of the harshest economic effects of World War I, many of which would lead directly to World War II.</em>
Nope. That's the 17th Century. The 16th includes the years from 1501 to 1600.