UNIVERSITIES IN COLORADO (CO)
Colorado's first inhabitants were probably the Anasazi Indians who, four centuries
before Columbus, lived in multi-story cliff dwellings in canyons in the southwestern corner of Colorado.
In 1800, Spain ceded a vast area, including Colorado, to Napoleon Bonaparte and the French. Three
years later, the same parcel of land was sold by Napoleon the United States as the "Louisiana Purchase".
Colorado was called the "Centennial State" in honor of the one-hundredth year of the Declaration of Independence.
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