| | Through out history eight Europeans countries have controlled different parts of the Americas, they are Denmark, which still controls [[Greenland]], France, which has in the past controlled, [[Canada]], [[Haiti]], and other places, Netherlands, which founded a colony in North America called New Netherlands, which contained parts of what is now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], and [[Connecticut]], Portugal also in the past controlled [[Brazil]], Russia, used to own [[Alaska]], which they later sold to the [[United States of America]], Spain in the past controlled most of what is now [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[Cuba]], and large parts of the Southern part of [[North America]], including [[Mexico]], and much of the Southern half of the [[United States]]. Sweden in the past founded a colony in North America, called New Sweden, which contained parts of what are now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]], the United Kingdom in the past controlled the thirteen colonies, which would later become the [[United States of America]], and also controlled [[Canada]], [[Jamaica]], [[Belize]], [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Barbados]] and other places in the Americas. | | Through out history eight Europeans countries have controlled different parts of the Americas, they are Denmark, which still controls [[Greenland]], France, which has in the past controlled, [[Canada]], [[Haiti]], and other places, Netherlands, which founded a colony in North America called New Netherlands, which contained parts of what is now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], and [[Connecticut]], Portugal also in the past controlled [[Brazil]], Russia, used to own [[Alaska]], which they later sold to the [[United States of America]], Spain in the past controlled most of what is now [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[Cuba]], and large parts of the Southern part of [[North America]], including [[Mexico]], and much of the Southern half of the [[United States]]. Sweden in the past founded a colony in North America, called New Sweden, which contained parts of what are now [[Delaware]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]], the United Kingdom in the past controlled the thirteen colonies, which would later become the [[United States of America]], and also controlled [[Canada]], [[Jamaica]], [[Belize]], [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Barbados]] and other places in the Americas. |