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The Indigenous migrated from Siberia to North America across a land bridge, Beringia, which emerged during the last Ice Age due to lower sea levels. This migration occurred approximately 15,000 to 30,000 years ago, as these early peoples, followed large game and eventually spread across the continent. The crossing was not a single event but happened over the span of 1,000's of years, likely influenced by both land and coastal routes.
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Incas
Aztecs
Mayans -
-begins Columbian Exchange
-Spain sends conquistadors Armada
-Spain sets up encomiendas (missions like in CA others -
Hernán Cortés is most famous for conquering the Aztec Empire for Spain between 1519 and 1521. His expedition led to the fall of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, and the beginning of Spanish rule in Mexico, a conquest that fundamentally changed the region's cultural and political landscape.
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-England defeats Spanish Armada
-England becomes superpower
-begins colonization soon after -
Jamestown PERIOD 2 (1607-1754)
-Joint Stock Company investor-backed
-backer company Virginia Company
-Captain John Smith leader
-martial law instituted for survival
1609-1610 desperate times
- Powhatan Confederacy aides Jamestown
-tobacco cash crop, saves colony from extinction
-Chesapeake becomes name of surrounding area
-indentured servants were popular and useful
-1618 headright sys. 50 acres given to a plantation owner who sponsored ppl over to America