I believe the first European country to gain influence and power was;
Spain
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Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Giovanni Boccaccio.
Conditions there were favorable to emigration
The Battle of Lexington.
This battle was officially the first battle the redcoats and minutemens fought each other. The minutemen were less well trained, and overnumbered, and so lost to the better trained larger group of British troops
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