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We know the Maya comes from what remains of their architecture and art. And we know they made paper from tree bark known as codices.
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The Olmecs were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization.
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Pope Urban called for the Holy War against the Muslims so he could reclaim the Holy Land.
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Europe has a lot of farmers and land for them to farm on and materials for them to farm with
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The Aztecs were able to create a great empire because they created a triple alliance to defeat their rivals.
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Marco Polo traveled to the East and showed people new things such as gunpowder and showed trade. He traveled across Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire.
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The Muslims still had control over the Holy Land after the Crusades but the Crusades impacted Europe in their economic growth.
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Marco Polo made it all the way to China and he found rare spices and wrote a book.
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Polo wrote his book about his travels and it inspired merchants and traders to go out and trade.
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The renaissance was a time of great social change.
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The Incan economy is made up of more than 10 million subjects. Cuzco was the center of Inca life.
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After the Portuguese captured the Fortress of Ceuta it gave them excellent maps of North America.
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Prince Henry the Navigator told two travelers to go out and that is when they discovered the Madeira Islands.
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Once they found the Azores Islands people started to settle there in 1439. People from all over the world went and settled here.
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Prince Henry's ship which was the caravel was the first ship to make a successful return voyage.
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The printing press helped Merchants and traders all over the world because it allowed them to share a lot of information quickly.
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The Catholic Church was the main factor that influenced unifying Spain.
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It was a big deal that they made it around the tip of Africa because it could have been a possible sea route to India.
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Muslims were expelled from Spain because they wanted to unify one religion which was Christianity so the Jews and Muslims were expelled because they were not Christian.
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Hernan Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire.
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Biological warfare in the form of smallpox allowed Pizarro to conquer the Inca. Smallpox spread quickly through the Americas prior to Pizarro's arrival. Having lived alongside livestock for millennia gave much of Europe immunity to the worst ravages of smallpox. But the indigenous tribes of the Americas had no such advantage.
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Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer, and conquistador springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans.
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A book called Leviathan argues that all social peace and unity is and can be achieved through the use of sovereign power. Hobbes begins the Leviathan with his theories on man. He believes men are a basic creature and relativity simple.
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Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government The Second Treatise of Government places sovereignty into the hands of the people. Locke's fundamental argument is that people are equal and invested with natural rights in a state of nature in which they live free from outside rule.
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America Declares Independence from Great Britain. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king.
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Freedom of religion in France is guaranteed by the constitutional rights set forth in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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In 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the French colony, and Toussaint-Louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.
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Bolívar was cornered in western Venezuela with his army. He was not powerful enough to knock out the Spanish armies, but they were not strong enough to defeat him, either.
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In 1821 Gran Colombia was declared that Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador were included in it. During then Colombia gained its independence from Spain and Simon Bolivar became the first president of Colombia.
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Jose de San Martin is one of the founding fathers of Argentina and also led the liberations of Chile and Peru.
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Mexico gained independence from The Mexican War of Independence it was triggered by the invasion of Spain.
