New World Beginnings
33,000 B.C.E - C.E. 1769
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| 420556905 | Incas | located in Peru cultivation of maize bulit elaborate cities carried on far-flung commerce talented mathematicians | |
| 420556906 | Mayans | located in Central America cultivation of maize bulit elaborate cities carried on far-flung commerce talented mathematicians | |
| 420556907 | Aztecs | located in Mexico cultivation of maize bulit elaborate cities carried on far-flung commerce talented mathematicians sought favor of the gods by offering human sacrifices | |
| 420556908 | Pueblos | located in the Rio Grande valley constructed intricate irrigation systems to water cornfields dwelling in villages of multistoried, tarraced buildings Pueblo means village in spanish | |
| 420556909 | Creeks, Chocataws, and Cherokees | cultavation of maize high yielding strains of beans and squash "three-sister" farming | |
| 420556910 | Iroquois Confederacy | developed the political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors | |
| 421579672 | Vinland | a place loacted near L'Anse aux Meadows in present-day Newfoundland where the Norse first landed in North America. | |
| 421579673 | Portuguese slave trade | encreased the flow of slave trade than that of the pre-European traffic. the 15th century Portuguese adventures in Africa were to be found that they were the origins of the modern plantation system. | |
| 421579674 | Vasco da Gama | reached India in 1498 | |
| 421579675 | Columbus | October 12, 1492 Columbus' crew spotted an island in the Bahamas. indirectly caused the trade networks of between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. | |
| 421579676 | Hispaniola | present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic | |
| 421579677 | Old World diseases | Smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever | |
| 421579678 | Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) | Spain and Portugal divided the "heathen lands" of the New World | |
| 421579679 | Vasco Nunez Balboa | claimed Panama in 1513 hailed as the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean | |
| 421579680 | Ferdinand Magellan | left Spain in 1519 with five ships only to be killed in the Phillippines and his last ship arrived back in Spain in 1522 completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. | |
| 421579681 | Juan Ponce de Leon | explored Florida in 1513, 1521 | |
| 421579682 | Francisco Coronado | discovered adobe pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico in 1540-1542 | |
| 421579683 | Hernando de Soto | with 6 hundred armored men marched through Florida looking for gold. he crossed the Mississippi River and the Arkansas River | |
| 421579684 | Hernán Cortés | in 1519 Hernán Cortés started his voyage into Mexico. He laid siege to Tenochtitlán on August 13, 1521 He brought his crops, animals, language, laws, customs, and his religion to the poeples of Mexico and they adapted to them. | |
| 421579685 | John Cabot | explored the northern coast of North America in 1497 and 1498 | |
| 421579686 | Giovanni da Verrazano | explored the eastern seaboard in 1524 | |
| 421579687 | Robert de La Salle | exploration down the Mississippi River in the 1680's | |
| 421579688 | Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo | explored Californian coast in 1542 | |
| 421579689 | Father Junipero Serra | 1769 Spanish missionaries led by Father Junipero Serra founded at San Diego, the first of a chain of 21 missions. |
