Excluding the Vikings from Scandinavia and Iceland, the first Europeans to settle in the Americas were the Spanish and the Portuguese. Columbus arrived in the islands off North America in 1492, and he and others established colonies for Spain in the West Indies. Portugal, having established an easterly trade route around Africa, also became interested in the New World, establishing a colony in Brazil in 1500.
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America was discovered by many different explorers, most of them of Western European ethnicity.
Spanish explorers traveled extensively throughout the Western Hemisphere. The conquistadores traveled as far north as the western portion of the present-day United States to the southernmost regions of the present-day countries of Chile and Argentina. The Spanish also sailed through the Pacific and reached the Philippines.
It depends on the time period you are talking about. Western countries are usually the America's canada, and Africa. Then again it depends on what time period you are talking about because it changes if your talking middle ages, WWI WWII etc...
The countries that were involved in the slave trade were: Europe and western Africa :D Europe and "West" Africa are Continents.
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