How Christopher Columbus Discovered Venezuela

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The source teaches you about the history of the country, it shows you how the natives lived in the country before Cristobal Colon, or how most Americans know him as Christopher Columbus, discovered Venezuela. It describes how and when Venezuela won its independence, and how it transformed into a democracy later on. It also explains how their democracy works and who were the presidents and what they did. Before Christopher Columbus discovered Venezuela, there were original Natives there, man appeared in Venezuela in a very recent time, it has said to be about 16,000 years ago. Most of the natives were hunters, fishermen, and farmers, this is only ways a human can survive, but there is a distinct group of natives that would not stay in one

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