<span>European colonization of the Americas began as early as the 10th century, when Norse sailors explored and settled limited areas on the shores of present-day Greenland and Canada.[1] Extensive European colonization began in 1492, when a Spanish expedition headed by Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route to the Far East but inadvertently found the Americas. European conquest, large-scale exploration, and colonization soon followed. Columbus's first two voyages (1492-93) reached the Bahamas and various Caribbean islands, including Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Cuba. In 1497, sailing from Bristol on behalf of England, John Cabot landed on the North American coast, and a year later, Columbus's third voyage reached the South American coast. France founded colonies in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in South America. Portugal colonized Brazil. This was the beginning of a dramatic territorial expansion for several European countries. Seeing that Europe had been preoccupied with internal wars, and was only slowly recovering from the loss of population caused by the bubonic plague, the rapid rate at which it grew in wealth and power was unforeseeable in the early 1400s.[2] Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere came under the control of European governments, leading to profound changes to its landscape, population, and plant and animal life. In the 19th century alone over 50 million people left Europe for the Americas.[3] The post-1492 era is known as the period of the Columbian Exchange, a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following Columbus's voyages to the Americas.</span>
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Charlemagne was the First Emperor of the Romans (later known as the Holy Roman Empire), restoring the Roman Empire in the West, which provided the foundation for a unified Europe. His method of ruling was looked to for many generations after as the standards by which one should rule and due to his religious reforms, the Christian (Catholic) Church eventually became the primary church in Europe for hundreds of years.
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Charlemagne or Charles the Great, numbered Charles I, was king of the Franks from 768, king of the Lombards from 774, and emperor of the Romans from 800. During the Early Middle Ages, he united the majority of western and central Europe. He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire. He was later canonized by Antipope Paschal III.