![]() ![]() At the same time, the Russians began to colonize Alaska. The Spaniards had conquered most of the Pacific Coast of what is now the Continental United States by the late 18 th century. The European conquest of the present-day Pacific States began in the 18 th century. It is thought that Hawaii was first inhabited 1,500 years ago, when Polynesians sailed to the islands. ![]() Their ancestors came across the Bering Strait, between present-day Russia and Alaska, when a land bridge linked Asia and North America, between 45,000 BCE and 12,000 BCE. Many Native American peoples inhabited what are now the Pacific States prior to contact with Europeans.
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