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Period: 3800 BCE to 10,000 BCE
North America - Bering Land Bridge
At the start of Ice Age, the Earth's climate became really cold. Large amounts of water froze in to huge, moving sheets of glaciers. When the ocean levels dropped more than 300 feet. When the sea leave dropped, there was a bridge build. It was called Bering Land Bridge. No one really knows when people started to use it to move across land. 38,000 and 10,000 BC. -
1500 BCE
North America - Anasazi
By the 1500 BC the Anasazi people who lived in North American South-west, like those who were in Mesoamerica. In Mesoamerica they where growing maize. The Anasazi lived in the four corners region, present-day Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. -
1500 BCE
North America - Inca
The Inca began in a really small tribe in the Andes mountains of South America. The city name was Cuzco (koo-skoh). In the mid-1400s, the Inca began to expand their land. When the 1500s came across the empire stretched along the Pacific, what is now central Chile. -
1500 BCE
Greek Philosophers
Three of the greatest philosophers in the whole time were; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They where great philosophers from teaching there word to students. -
1400 BCE
West Africa - Ghana
When trade routes brought the people together in Ghana, people started to get introduce to religion and cultures. Arab leaders got to Ghana and introduced the people to Islam. In AD 1060, a group of Muslim the Almoravids (al-muh-rah-vuhdz) started to attacked Ghana, so they can get effort for teaching of the Qur'an. By the end of the 1400 AD Islam becine the most practice religion in the region of Ghana. -
1400 BCE
Search for Knowledge
Italian artists painted some beautiful painting, and made some sculptures. The artists are called Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci was the an engineer, and a map maker. -
1332 BCE
West Africa - Mali
In Ghana Mali the most famoud ruler in Ghana, was a Muslim king, and his name is Mansa Musa. When he was rulling over 25 years he important trade in cities, including Timbuktu, Djenne, and Gao. The most important thing they traded in Mali was; salt, gold, metals, shells, and many other gods. -
1200 BCE
North America - Olmec
Around 1200 BC the Olmec made the first civilization in mesoamerca. They are known for their use in stone in architecture and sculpture. The Olmec made the very first pyramids in America. When the Olmec civilization ended around 400 BC, they started trade through Olmec. -
1 BCE
North America - North and Northwest
Native Americans in the Pacific north-west that started to carve images of totems of there ancestors or animal spirits on tall wooden poles. -
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Impacted of Columbus Voyages
The voyage change the way the Europeans thought about the world. Columbus discovered that both Spain and Portugal already had growing empires, and had issues with each other. So both of the lands had a imaginary line, Line of Demarcation. That divides the Atlantic Ocean -
1000
Leif Eriksson
Is the son of Erik the red, and he shared his fathers love of adventures. In the year of 1000, his ship that was going to Norway and Greenland was carried away (by wind) to America. His crew landed in Labrador Peninsula in Canada. -
1400
Technology Advances
New technology started to be in the making. Sailors had to have a tool to make them go the right way. So the adventures made a astrolabe and that is a device that you can navigate ships in a location by the shooting star! -
1492
Mondern Day Examples
If Christopher Columbus did not go the West way from England, he would not have found our country. If he went through the south way we would probably get to Asia instead of the America's. -
1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was trying to sail to Asia. He though going west on the map was going to be faster then going around Africa. He was sailing west across the Atlantic ocean from Europe, and found land. He thought that it was Asia. He got out of his boat and saw Native Americas. He told his crew that they don't look like Asians or don't speak like them. -
Period: 1499 to 1400
Prince Henry the Navigator
In early 1400 Portugal became a leader in the exploration of the world. Prince Henry the Navigator, was in charge of making exploration more successful. He would never go and set sail on a voyage himself. Henry build an observation and founded a school for children. -
1500
Spain and England go to War.
King Philip ll got made at the English piracy. So he started to gathered Spanish Armada that was ships to end the war. Armada had about 130 ships and 27,000 sailors and solders. -
1517
The Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther did not like the Catholic way of them teaching to the people. So he went out and started to make Protestant. Protestant were people who protested some of the Catholic Church -
1519
Spanish Conquistadors
When the Spanish were about to attack, they sent conquistadors. Conquistador are soldiers that led the military in the Americas. Conquistador Hernán Cortés left Cuba to sail to present day Mexico in 1519. He heard the wealthy land that was ruled by a king named Moctezuma ll. -
1560
Middle Passage
The middle passage was where they got slaves from Africa to help them work in the America. It was also a voyage that crossed the Atlantic Ocean. -
1560
African Diaspora
African Diaspora is where enslaved Africans that where getting shipped over to the new world. -
Pilgrims on the Move
The pilgrims were one of the first people who left England in early 1600 to escape persecution. The pilgrim immigrated to other countries. -
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The southern Colonies
King James l was asked if they have the right to go and find, or establish, or a settlement in Virginia. King James l said yes for them to go and search for the new land. -
Founding a New Colony
On May 14, about 40 miles from James river in Virginia, the colonist founded Jamestown, it was the first permanent English settlement in North America -
Founding a New Colony
On May 14, about 40 miles from James river in Virginia, the colonist founded Jamestown, it was the first permanent English settlement in North America -
New York and New Jersey
In the 1613, a New Netherlands director; Peter Stuyvesant led New York, and New Jersey. They started to set sail on 1664. -
War in Virginia
John Rolfe got married to Pocahontas. She was the daughter of Powhatan. Powhatan was the leader of that area at that time. Their marriage helped them colonies even more of the land, and it helped them. However Pocahontas died three years later in England from seeing her husband. -
The Mayflower Compact
All of the male passenger went on the Mayflower boat to ship to the America. The Mayflower compact, an agreement on a fair laws to protect general goods. -
Forced Labor
To reward the settlers, Spain established the encomienda system. It gave the settlers right to tax local, if they made the native Americans work, and to convert them to Christians. -
English Bill of Rights
The Parliament replaced the unpopular King James word to the English bill of rights in 1689. This is an act that reduced the power of the English monarch. As the time went one the own colonist gained their own power by the Bill of Rights. -
Economy of the Middle Colonies
The colonies wanted to combined because of the good climate of the southern colonies, and with rich land. They also wanted a large grow of staple crops. Staple crops are crops that are always needed. -
Stamp Act
The meaning of stamp act is an act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, instead of stealing the stamp. The taxes have to be paid for legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and more. If colonist refused to stamp they have to go to jail straight after they make their choice. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is when they colonist called the shooting or an attacked in Boston. English armies came in and started a war between them, and the colonies. -
Colonail Governors and Legislatures
Each colonies had to have their own government. They had to have their own government because they had to have a secret powerful way to take over other colonies. Their government is just a royal advisers, that "take over" their government -
Mondern Day - English Bill of Rights
If Bill did not make the Bill of rights as our laws in America, we would not have that great laws. The Bill of Rights has given us a Constitution. They help us get new laws, and make our country better, and safer.