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Map of European colonies in America XVI-XVII-XVIII. The map is intended to make visible in broad strokes the territorial scope of the European colonial presence in America, especially in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
* The Spanish possessions stretching from Cape Horn in South America to the mountains of Nevada in North America, through Central America and reaching up Florida. Some indigenous communities were respected for their bravery and the only relationship was commercial.
* The Portuguese possessions were taken from the areas they occupied: the entire coastal strip and the area of the misiones. The region of Mato Grosso and the Amazon are not included.
* The French possessions are Louisiana and Quebec in North America, French Guiana, Haiti and other islands in the Caribbean and South America.
* The British possessions are the thirteen colonies and what became Canada, more some islands in the Caribbean and British Guiana.
* The Netherlands possessions are Guiana and some islands in the Caribbean.
Excluded are small colonial possessions of Russia, Scotland, Wales, and Courland. Nor does it include Afro-Brazilians independent states in Los Palmares, or the Jesuit Missions that had a Christian-Guarani autonomous community organization. Nor does it include several Caribbean islands that were not colonized and were held by pirates.
Source:
Pepe Robles
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