When Worlds Colllide: The Old World And The New World

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The video when worlds collide was about many different topics about the past and how much the world has changed through the events of the past.It was about the how people from Europe came to what they called the new world and how they tried to convert the people that were already there to their religion and they brought people from other lands and enslaved them once they found a mountain that had silver in it. It’s also about how the “old world” and the “new world” changed each other through the cultures of the people.

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