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indigenous people of Mexico and Central America, with lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras.
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first major civilization in Mexico, located near the gulf
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pope sends crusades to the holy land
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Europeans start farming
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known for agriculture, cultivating all available land, introducing irrigation, located in central and south america
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travels to East Asia and visits the leader of Mongol leader Kublai Khan
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the crusades end after their failed attempt to take over the holy land
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polo travels home after traveling from 1271 to 1295
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polo get caught in war and is imprisoned, while in prison he met a writer from Pisa and convinced him to write about his journey
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rebirth to art and learning
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originally a small tribe in the southern highlands of Peru; specialized in engineering
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Portuguese capture the fortress of Ceuta to hopefully build a new gold market
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Portugal discovers the Madeira Islands
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the Azores Islands were discovered by Portugal
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Portuguese successfully traveled around the Africa cape
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the printing press was invented to make it easier to mail stuff
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gained a commercial advantage over Portugal
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after henry's death, dias lead the Portuguese to India around the cape of good hope
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Landed in prest day Dominican republic
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Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire. Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador, or conqueror, best remembered for conquering the Aztec empire in 1521
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the Spanish explorer and conquistador springs a trap on the Incan emperor
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the Inca Empire was in a civil war that had decimated the population and divided the people's loyalties
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view of man- fair and equal and optimistic
view of government- unfair and pessimistic -
the point is that man is free and does not have to serve or be under a ruler/king/unfair government and should be people run and everyone should have a voice- {freedom in speech}
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an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. ... Independence would be necessary, however, before French officials would consider the possibility of an alliance.
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the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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the rebels scored a major victory against the French force there, and on November 9, 1803, colonial authorities surrendered. In 1804, General Dessalines assumed dictatorial power, and Haiti became the second independent nation in the Americas
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seven of the ten provinces of the Captaincy General of Venezuela declared their independence in the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence. The First Republic of Venezuela was lost in 1812 following the 1812 Caracas earthquake and the 1812 Battle of La Victoria.
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first governments did not fully achieve independence, but their main goal was to separate from Bonaparte's government. Individuals who were set on independence brought the Gran Colombian Revolution upon them. ... Simon Bolivar confirmed independence in the Republic of Gran Colombia
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liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain on 28 July 1821. The two leading figures of the South American wars of independence were Simon Bolivar in the north and José de San Martín in the south
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launched the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores"
