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Jesus of Nazareth is born. His teachings become the basis of christianity.
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Columbus's voyages and achievements.
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The Maya are using hieroglyphic writing.
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Western Roman Empire ends. Over time, Europe splits into small kindoms.
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Muhammad begins the religion of Islam in Arabia.
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Europeans begin the Crusades to capture the Holy Land from the followers of Islams.
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The City of Cahokia flourishes in what is now Illonois.
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The Aztecs conquer much of centeral Mexico.
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Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, travels to the Islams holy city. World of his gold spreads to Europe.
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Christopher Columbus was born.
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Portuguese traders begin to build a fort near Benin in Africa.
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On his first voyage, Columbus landed in what he thought was India, but it turned out to be what is now America.
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Columbus's 2nd voyage took him to Hispanolia(Hati) where he fought natives for their land. He claimed the land for Queen Isabella.
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His third voyage was an exploration of the Cape Verde Islands that was proclaimed by King John 11.
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Columbus made a fouth voyage mainly to find a westward passage to the Indian Ocean. He was sent by Queen Elizibeth.
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Columbus died, because a heart attack.
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!st English colony established......Later failed.
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John Smith and other settlers established Jamestown, VA.
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Pocahontas saves John Smiths life.
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth....Pilgrims wish to separate from Anglican Church.
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Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay colony founded....... Want a more pure form of the Anglican Church.
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William Penn recieves charter for Pennsylvannia.
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New England takes New Amsterdam from the Dutch.
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Salem Witch trials are held.
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Colonial America population reaches 257,000.
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Enslaved Africans revolt in the Stono Rebellion.
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Population of Colonial America reaches 1 million mark.
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The proclamation was issued to keep American settlers from settling on the Appalachian Mountains due to dangerous Indians.
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The Sugar Act was passed by King George to have the American colonists to pay them so Britian could pay off thier war debt. Taxed tea and molassas also.
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King George passed the stamp act to keep colonists from smuggling illegal goods.
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King George III passed the Quartering Act to have colonists house British troops after the war so they don't have to pay them to stay in a camp. They also don't have to buy food.
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The Stamp Act was repealed after the Boston Tea Party, when coloists dressed up as indians and dumped Tea into the Boston Harbor. The Declaratory Act punished the colonists for the money lost from the Tea Party.
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The British also placed the Townstead Acts after the Boston Tea Party for a punishment. Taxes where placed on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre occured when 5 British soilders where walking through the streets of Boston and where confronted by several colonists who began to hurle rocks and insults and the soilders. The soilders felt unsafe and began to fire at the colonists. The news press over exaggerated and said that they lined up to shot them. The soilders went to court and where found inocent. This helped in the making of the Townstead Acts being repealed.
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The British were being boycotted and non of the colonists where buying any tea so the Act was basicly useless.
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Colonists rose up and started riots to end the final Act.
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British was losing control of the Coloines and they wanted to take them by force.
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Delaware was founded.
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Maize is widely grown in what in now the southeastern United States.
