This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

In the following century the term was extended to European settlers and their descendants in the Americas.

The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

John the Conqueror was an African prince who was sold as a slave in the Americas.

Virginia Dare ( born August 18, 1587 ) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Ananias and Eleanor White Dare in the short-lived Roanoke Colony.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

Although many types of balls are today made from rubber, this form was unknown outside the Americas until after the voyages of Columbus.

The abolition of slavery in 1823 — long before most other countries in the Americas — was considered one of the Pipiolos ' few lasting achievements.

Chile hosted the second Summit of the Americas in 1998, was the chair of the Rio Group in 2001, hosted the Defense Ministerial of the Americas in 2002, and the APEC summit and related meetings in 2004.

In 1513, Ferdinand II of Aragon issued a decree establishing the encomienda land settlement system that was to be incorporated throughout the Spanish Americas.

Though Havana, which had become the third-largest city in the Americas, was to enter an era of sustained development and closening ties with North America during this period, the British occupation of the city proved short-lived.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

It was also common during the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on fresh ground or on the ruins of earlier Amerindian cities.

It was introduced to the Americas by Spanish and Portuguese colonists.

Colombia was a participant in the December 1994 and April 1998 Summits of the Americas and followed up on initiatives developed at the summit by hosting two post-summit, ministerial-level meetings on trade and science and technology.

The European colonial period was the era from the 1500s to, arguably, the 1900s when several European powers ( particularly, but not exclusively, Spain, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands and France ) established colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Prior to the end of the slave trade and widespread abolition, when indigenous labour was unavailable, slaves were often imported to the Americas, first by the Spanish Empire, and later by the Dutch, French and British.

There was, though, some Russian colonization of the Americas across the Bering Strait.

Cholera was not known in the Americas for most of the 20th century, but it reappeared towards the end of that century and seems likely to persist.

This was a response by the North West Company to the plans of John Jacob Astor to send a ship around the Americas to establish a fur trading post.

La Isabela was abandoned and Santo Domingo became the new capital, and remains the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the Americas.

Malaria is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions in a broad band around the equator, including much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Malaria is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa.

From the Americas, sunflower seeds were brought to Europe in the 16th century, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a widespread cooking ingredient.

Beachberry or Inkberry ( Scaevola plumieri ) is widespread along the Atlantic coast of the tropical Americas and Africa ; however, it is becoming rarer in areas where S. taccada is displacing native coastal plants.

He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle ( including a state-sponsored US $ 3 million wedding in 1980 ), and made millions from involvement in the drug trade and from selling body parts from dead Haitians while poverty among his people remained the most widespread for any country in the Americas.

The colonising period involved the widespread settlement of parts of the Americas and Australasia with European people, and the establishment of outposts and colonial administrations in parts of Asia and Africa.

The authors note a " nique genetic variant widespread in natives across both continents suggests that the first humans in the Americas came in a single migration or multiple waves from a single source, not in waves of migrations from different sources ".

True parrots are more widespread than cockatoos, with species in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and eastwards across the Pacific Ocean as far as Polynesia.

This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean region of the Americas.

It has become widespread throughout many other parts of the world — from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa.

From the Americas, sunflower seeds were brought to Europe in the 16th century, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a widespread cooking ingredient.

As concerns are widespread about uneven bargaining powers, and risks and benefits, negotiations are often difficult, such that the plan to create free trade areas ( such as Free Trade Area of the Americas ) has not yet been successful.

The Greyish Saltator ( Saltator coerulescens ) is a seed-eating songbird that is widespread in the tropical Americas.

Freedom House classifies Cuba as being " Not Free ", and notes that " Cuba is the only country in the Americas that consistently makes Freedom House ’ s list of the Worst of the Worst: the World ’ s Most Repressive Societies for widespread abuses of political rights and civil liberties.

The Columbian Exchange also known as the Grand Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations ( including slaves ), communicable disease, and ideas between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

As insurrection became more widespread, he became involved with the Liberal Nationalist Republican Alliance ( ARENA ), which had been founded by School of the Americas trained military intelligence officer Roberto D ' Aubuisson.

It is present and widespread in the Americas and Australia as an introduced species.

It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas.

According to The 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project, " Throughout Western Europe and much of the Americas, there is widespread tolerance towards homosexuality.

They are mainly found and widespread in the Americas, with a few species present in Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Sabah Fakhri is also one of the very few Arabic singers to receive widespread popularity and perform concerts worldwide ( including Europe, Asia, The Americas, and Australia ).

Archeological records show that it was the most widespread variety of Cucurbita in the Americas, cultivated from northern Chile and Argentina to Mexico.

The use of both " native American " and " Native American " to refer to the indigenous peoples of the Americas came into widespread common use during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.