I believe the first European country to gain influence and power was;
Spain
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The Soninke are a Mande-speaking ethnic group in eastern Senegal, including Dakar, northwestern Mali, and Fouta Djallon in Guinea, The Gambia, and southern Mauritania. They speak the Soninke language, which is also known as Maraka and is one of the Mande languages. The Soninke people were the builders of Ghana's ancient empire. Ghana was a West African kingdom that ruled over what is now Mauritania's southeast and western Mali.
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The 14th Amendment provides that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdictionthereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside