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Trading in Africa started in Egypt around 3100 B.C.
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Highly skilled farmers called the Hohokam dug irrigation canals in the deserts of present day Arizona
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Between A.D. 250 and A.D. 900, the Mayans built cities in what is now Mexico n Central America.
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Islam emerged on the Arabian Peninsula in the 600s.
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Around A.D. 900, Mayans began to abandon their cities
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A number of woodlands people had taken up farming
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About A.D. 1000, trade centers began to appear in eastern Africa.
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They lived in cliff dwellings and then abandoned them.
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Aztec armies brought half of modern day Mexico under their control.
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In the 1400s, the Incas were the largest empire. They stretched from the coast of South America to the Amazon rain forest.
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The most powerful trade center in East Africa became the center of a flourishing empire in the 1400s.
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Nomads captured Timbuktu
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When the first Europeans reached the Americas, the Native Americans were a richly diverse group of people with distinct ways of life
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By the 1500s, a complex trade network linked Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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The five Iroquois nations went through a period of constant warfare so they created the League of the Iroquois to make peace.
