On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani.
The oldest recognizable signs of permanent human habitation and urbanization go back abut 12,500 years -- sites like Jericho<span> and </span>Göbekli Tepe<span> both show persistent communities who had the resources to build permanent structures and enough surplus food and labor to support specialists -- however both of those sites also show that hunting remained an important component of the community's way of life. There are certainly other examples of permanent settlements from this same period scattered around, particularly in the region of modern Syria, Turkey, Armenia and Iraq. </span>
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A. To create a powerful national government to control the states.
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The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
I believe it was <span>Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by discovering Newfoundland in Canada.</span>
The cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber