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Migration of Asian people to North America through the Bering Strait -
the movement of peoples from Asia to north America stopped -
Mayan civilization develops in the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador -
Olmec culture flourishes in Mesoamerica -
Mayan Civilization flowered -
Mayan civilization thrived in the classic period in the lowlands in northern Central America and southern Mexico -
The temple of the jaguar in Tikal was constructed. -
The Mayan Civilization started to fall -
emerges in the Cuzco Valley of South America. -
The Mayan civilization stopped flourishing -
The Aztecs who migrated from northern Mexico, arrived in the Valley of Mexico -
The capital was established in the Texcoco Lake -
was the Incan ruler -
The last emperor of the Aztec empire was born -
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Christopher Columbus arrives at what he called San Salvador Island in the Caribbean and encounters Native American culture -
Signed by Spain and Portugal, establishing a line of demarcation from pole to pole 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands; Spain received the right to colonize all territory to the west of that line; Portugal colonized lands to the east -
Pedro Álvares Cabral arrives in Brazil and claims it for Portugal -
The arrival of black slaves to the Americas. -
In Hispaniola, the first sugar mill is constructed. -
Pope Julius II granted the Spain monarch the patronato real -
Pope Julius II authorizes the Spanish Catholic monarchs to propagate the Catholic Church in the Americas; Patronato Real gave power to crown to appoint Church officials -
Two-hundred and fifty slaves are imported to the Americas to work in the gold mines in Hispaniola -
Promulgated to protect the native Americans from the worst ravages of Spanish conquest/ outlaw the slavery of Indian people -
Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the isthmus and discoveres the Pacific Ocean -
named the official Protector of the Indians -
Being Moctezuma II the ruler, Cortes leads an expedition from Cuba to Mexico and later takes Moctezuma prisioner Slaves were taken directly from Africa by European slave ships. -
Spaniards finally defeated Cuauhtémoc completing the conquest of the Aztec empire -
Conquistador Gil Gonzalez Davila converts 30,000 Indians to Christianity in the area called Nicaragua, and sends some 500,000 as slaves to other parts of Spanish Empire -
Guatemala City was founded. The Council of the Indies is established by King Charles V. -
post-classical Mayan civilization lived on in the Yucatan centers like Chichen Itza and Uxmal after other Mayan lands were conquered by the Spaniards -
The Spanish crown authorizes the spread of slavery to Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Jamaica -
Francisco Pizarro invades the Incan Empire, captures and executes Emperor Atahualpa, and conquers the Incas -
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The first university in the Americas is established: St. Thomas Aquinas in the city of Santo Domingo -
Francisco de Orellana discovers the headwaters of the Amazon River in what is now Ecuador -
The New Laws of the Indies are issued by Spain, officially eliminating the encomienda -
The encomendero's rights to demand labor from his tributaries was outlawed. -
New universities are creted in Mexico and Lima -
Araucan Indian chief Caupolican, allied with Chief Lautaro, defeats Spaniards, kills Pedro de Valdivia, and defeats the forces of Francisco de Villagra de Chile -
the institution of the Inquisition begins in Latin America in Lima and Mexico City -
The Jesuits were expelled from the colonies by the Portuguese -
The Jesuits were expelled from the colonies by King Charles III -
Incan descendant Tupac Amaru leads a two-year rebellion against authorities on behalf of the Indians. -
transatlantic slave trade stopped -
The Araucanians of Chile and Argentina were completely conquered by European invaders -
African slavery stopped in Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and in Brazil