c.
18,000 BC
First people crossed Bering Sea Land Bridge?
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c.
10,000 BC
Points and scrapers, Venezuela
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9000-6000
BC
First indisputable evidence of Eskimo culture?
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8500
BC
Marmes Rockshelter, Washington
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7700
BC
Archaic cultures, Northwest Coast
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5000
BC
Maize in use in Mesoamerica |
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3500
BC
Cotton cultivated in South America
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1500
BC
Oldest known South American metalwork
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1200-400
BC
Olmecs, Mesoamerica
Maize in North American Southwest
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185
BC
Pit houses appear in Four Corners area
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200
AD
Small villages appear in Southwest
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400
Bow and arrow in use
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900
Agriculture practiced in most of Southwest
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1000
Norse settlement, Newfoundland
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1100
Fortifications built around Northeastern villages, indicating
widespread warfare |
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1492
Christopher Columbus lands on Guanahani
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1511
Spanish priest de Montesinos condemns cruelty toward Natives
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1520
Cortés defeats Aztecs at Mexico City |
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1532-3
Pizarro conquers Incas |
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1539
de Soto pillages way through Southeast |
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1542
Iroquoian nations invaded by Algonkian nations |
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1565
First permanent European settlement in North America,
St. Augustine
Sweet potatoes and tobacco introduced to England |
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1606
English settlement in Virginia |
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1615-40's
Hurons and other tribes create vast trade network |
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1616-20
Smallpox ravages New England Indians |
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1620's
First Virginia War
Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts |
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1626
Dutch buy Manhattan from Shinnecocks |
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1671
Apaches begin migrating to the Southwest from southern
Plains |
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1680
Pueblo Revolt |
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1689-97
King William’s War
Louis XIV, France, declares war on Britain |
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1754-63
French and Indian War |
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1769
Franciscan missions established in California |
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1777
Articles of Confederation |
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