Undiscovered by the Europeans until the late 16th/early 17th Century.

According to history books the earliest colonies in the Americas (then known as the "New World") began around the late 1490's.

Independently of one-another there were many indigeneous lands in the "New World" which were colonized by the English, French and Spanish.

The earliest of which being the Spanish conquest on South America in 1492, under the leadership of Christopher Colombus.

The French colony known as New France (which is Present-day Quebec) in 1534 under the leadership of Jacques Cartier.

As well as the first North American English colony known as Jamestown in 1607, named after King James the 1st.

Pocahontas

There was no america in the 11th century.

European women were either nobles or peasants.

Same as today just different methodolgy.

3cm shorter