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The Americas were discovered by the West through Italian explorer, navigator and coloniser Christopher Columbus in 1451 for the Catholic Spanish monarchy. Soon after this expedition, this vast continent began to be populated by Europeans as well as by the people kidnapped from African countries and forcibly taken to work in the Americas as slaves.
Tattoos were already sported by the native indigenous population at the time. An account by 16th-century Spanish explorers describes Mayan tattooing in present-day Mexico and several other Central American countries, with their tattoos being said to represent a deed of courage by the natives. These heavily-tattooed natives frightened Cuzco and the Spanish armada that accompanied him.
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