The history of America refers to the set of relative events. As of 1492, America was incorporated into the rest of the world as a colonial annex to Europe, which constituted slave societies on the continent that radically modified the ethnic composition of the population, in a process parallel to the demographic catastrophe that eliminated a large part of its population. original. At the beginning of the 19th century, the process of decolonization and creation of the current American nation-states began, none of which arose as a continuity of the original peoples, a situation that does not occur in any other continent.
