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When the Ice Age happened, water froze into glaciers making sea level drop. A land bridge between Asia and Alaska appeared called the Bering Land Bridge and people called Paleo-Indians crossed over to Alaska between 38,000 and 10,000 BC.
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Mesoamerica= 1200 BC-1532 AD
Native America= 5000 BC-1700 AD
Africa= 300 AD-1500 AD
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The Anasazi were people who lived in the North American Southwest.
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The Soninke farmers were threatened by nomadic herders, so they grouped together for protection and started the beginning of Ghana.
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The Renaissance happened after the Middle Ages and brought a period of order and stability to Europe.
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Portugal became a leader in world exploration because of Prince Henry the Navigator who taught better methods of sailing.
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Johannes Gutenberg develops his movabletype printing press.
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Christopher Columbus lands on the Bahamas in the Americas thinking he found a new route to Asia.
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European Explorations of the Americas = 1492-1682
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Vasco da Gama traveled by sea from Portugal to India and won the race for a sea route to Asia.
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Martin Luther criticized the Roman Catholic Church and doing so he helped start the Protestant Reformation.
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The first ship full of enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas.
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Hernan Cortes sails from Cuba to present day Mexico to conquer the Aztec Empire than was being ruled by Moctezuma ll.
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Ferdinand Magellan's crew traveled some 40,000 miles and circumnavigated the globe.
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Franciso Pizarro and some help from Native American allies conquered the Inca Empire.
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England develops colonies in North America and rules over them= 1605-1774
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105 colonists were sent by the London Company and founded Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Because the Pilgrims were being persecuted in England, a group of them left England in the Mayflower to start a new colony in the Americas.
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Puritan colonists leave England for Massachusetts in search of religious freedom. They were led by John Winthrop.
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Director General Peter Stuyvesant led the beginning of the colony in New Netherlands.
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William Penn received a charter from King Charles ll giving him permission to begin a colony. His colony became known as Pennsylvania.
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The English Bill of Rights reduced the powers of the English monarch.
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The Enlightenment spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when thy bought paper items.
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Colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor. It became known as the Boston Tea Party.
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The Athens were the first Greek city states to created a democracy. It is related to this event because 58.2% of the worlds population live in a country that is based on democratic principles.
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Johannes Gutenberg develops a movable type printing press which allowed people to read the Bible on their own instead of relying on what the priests said. It is related to this event because now a days the printing press is being used to print Bibles in different languages so everyone can read it in their own language.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was a way that the British government made money from the colonist by texting them on goods they purchased. It is related to this event because Malaysia is making money by taxing their tourists on the hotel that they stay at.