A Super Quick History of California

Before California became one of the biggest and richest states in the United States, the region developed from humble, complicated, yet fascinating beginnings. Once even thought to have been an island, California was mostly unknown to the European explorers of the 16th century. Its first peoples, the Native American tribes of California, had lived in the region for more than 13,000 years. All changed after first contact was made and European settlements began to take place. The Spanish colony that began in Baja California would eventually expand all the way north to Alta California, what is nowadays the US state. Centuries later, a short-lived Mexican period would eventually give way to the more familiar order of things, when the US annexed California and its history as a US state began. ‪@HISTORY‬ ‪@historywithhilbert146‬ ‪@MrHistory1‬

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