Chronology
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33,000-8,000 B.C. |
First humans cross into Americas from Asia |
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5000 B.C |
Corn is developed as a staple crop in highland Mexico |
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4000 B.C. |
First civilized societies develop in the middle east |
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1200 B.C. |
Corn planting reaches present day American southwest |
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1000 A.D. |
Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in northeastern North America corn cultivation reaches Midwest and southeastern Atlantic seaboard |
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1100 |
Height of the mississippian settlement at Cahokia |
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1100-1300 |
Christian crusaders arouse European interest in the east. |
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1295 |
Marco polo returns to Europe |
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Late 1400s |
Spain becomes united |
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1488 |
Diaz rounds southern tip of Africa |
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1492 |
Columbus lands in the Bahamas |
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1494 |
Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal |
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1498 |
da Gama reaches India. Cabot explores northeastern America for England |
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1513 |
Balboa claims all lands touched by the pacific ocean for Spain |
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1513,1521 |
Ponce de Leon explores Florida |
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1519-1521 |
Cortez conquers Mexico for Spain |
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1522 |
Magellan’s vessel completes circumnavigation of the world |
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1524 |
Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America and France |
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1532 |
Pizarro crushes Incas |
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1534 |
Cartier journeys up the st. Lawrence river |
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1539-1542 |
De soto explores the southeast and discovers the Mississippi river |
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1540-1542 |
Coronado explores present day southwest |
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1542 |
Cabrillo explores California coast of Spain |
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1565 |
Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine |
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Late 1500s |
Iroquois confederacy founded, to Iroquois legend |
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1598-1609 |
Spanish under Onate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande Valley |
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1609 |
Spanish found New Mexico |
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1680 |
Popes rebellion in New Mexico |
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1680s |
French expedition down Mississippi river under La Salle |
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1769 |
Serra founds first California mission at San Diego |
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