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The Paleo Indians migrated to the Americas between 38,000 and 10,000 BC. After the ice age, the ice melted, exposing the Bering land bridge.They were hunter gatherers.
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The earliest people in North America were hunter gatherers. After 5000 BC, some of these people learned how to farm and they settled in villages. Anasazis live in the North American South-West, 1500 BC onwards. The Hopewell lived between 1000 BC and AD 700. They built mounds for their dead.
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The earliest American Cultures arose in Mesoamerica. These include the Olmec, Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations.
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The people of Ghana were farmers along the Niger River. After AD 300 these farmers, Soninke, were threatened by nomadic herders. Ghana is an Islamic country. Mali lay along the upper Niger River. This area's fertile soil helped Mali grow. Mali's people could control trade along the Niger River causing the empire to grow rich and powerful. Mali had a famous, rich ruler named Mansa Musa. The Songhai Empire was conquered by Mansa Musa. It was then ruled by Adkin the Great.
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Europe was divided into many small kingdoms. This was a time of Feudalism; the system used by the nobles that separated people. In the late 1000's, a long series of wars began called the Crusades. During the Middle Ages trade began to increase and towns grow bigger. As trade routes spread, so did disease. The Black Death was spread by rats that were aboard ships and killed millions. Then the Renaissance began.
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Vikings were the first to reach North America. Leif Eriksson and his crew were going from Norway to Greenland but got of course and went to North America instead. Native Americans attacked the setterlers so they left.
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The word Renaissance means rebirth; the Renaissance was the rebirth of the Middle Ages. I brought new ways of thinking to European, weakening the old feudal system even more. They were always on the search for knowledge. The Renaissance emphasized the importance of people over religion. This was called humanism. During this time period the economy thrived through out Europe.
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The printing press was developed by Johannes Gutenberg. It was a giant step forward in spreading new ideas.
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On the 3rd of August, 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail to explore the Atlantic. On October 12th, 1492 he and his crew landed in the Bahamas. He thought he had reach Asia but was unaware that he was in America instead. In 1504, he died. Columbus had discovered a new trade route to the Americas, starting the Colombian Exchange. It dramatically changed the world. They both traded things that were previously not available to the other. Unfortunately they also shared diseases and slaves.
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Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation, a religious movement to protest against the Catholic Church's. Many Protestants believed God meant for religion to be simple.
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In July, 1588 the English defeated the Spanish.
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Colonists founded Jamestown. It was the first permanent English settlement in North America. There was a lot of disease and slavery.
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The Dutch founded New Netherlands in 1613 as a trading post for fur. William Penn got a charter from King Charles II to start New Jersey. It was made as a safe haven for Quakers.
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Maryland was made by George Calvert as a new colony in North America for Catholics.
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A legal contact in which theu agreed to have fair laws to protect genearl goods.
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These colonies are south of Virginia and were established by king, Charles II.
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Tension had arisen between New England colonists and the Wampanoag. By 1675 the King Philip war started.
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In 1764 Parliament passed the Sugar Act.
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This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.