H Flashcards
Corn is developed as a staple crop in highland Mexico
ca 5000
First humans cross into Americas from Asia
ca. 33,000-8,000 B.C.E.
First civilized societies develop in the Middle East
ca. 4000 B.C.E.
Corn planting reached present day American Southwest
ca. 1200 B.C.E.
Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in. or theaters North America
ca. 1000 c.e.
Corn cultivation reaches Midwest and southeastern Atlantic seaboard
ca. 1000 c.e.
Height of Mississippian settlement at Cahokia
ca. 1100 c. e.
Christian crusades arouse European interest in the East
ca. 1100-1300 c. e.
Marco Polo returns to Europe
1295
Spain becomes united
late 1400s
Dias rounds southern tip of Africa
1488
Columbus lands in the Bahamas
1492
Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal
1494
Da agama reaches India
1498
Cabot explore northeastern coast of North America for England
1498
Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain
1513
Ponce de León explores Florida
1513, 1521
Cortes conquers Mexico for Spain
1519-1521
Magellan’s vessel completes circumnavigation of the world
1522
Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France
1524
Pizarro crushes Incas
1532
Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence River
1534
De Soto explores the Southeast and discovered the Mississippi River
1539-1542
Coronado explores present day Southwest
1540-1542
Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain
1542
Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine
1565
Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to legend
late 1500s
Spanish under Oñate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande valley
ca. 1598-1609
Spanish found New Mexico
1609
Pope’s rebellion in New Mexico
1680
French expedition down Mississippi River under LaSalle
1680s
Serra founds first California Mission, at San Diego
1769
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
1558
England crushes Irish uprising
ca. 1565-1590
Drake circumnavigates the globe
1577
Raleigh founds “lost colony” at Roanoke Island
1585
England defeats Spanish Armada
1588
James I becomes king of England
1603
Spain and England sign peace treaty
1604
Virginia colony founded at Jamestown
1607
Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
1612
First Anglo-Powhatan War ends
1614
First Africans arrive in Jamestown
1619
Virginia House of Burgesses established
1619
Virginia becomes royal colony
1624
Maryland colony founded
1634
Large scale slave labor system established in English West Indies
1640s
Second Anglo Powhatan war
1644
Act of Toleration in Maryland
1649
Charles 1 beheaded, Cromwell rules England
1649
Charles II restored to English throne
1660
Barbados slave code adopted
1661
Carolina colony created
1670
Tuscarora War in North Carolina
1711-1713
North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina
1712
Yamasee War in South Carolina
1715-1716
Georgia colony founded
1733
Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
1517
John Calvin of Geneva publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536
Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay
1620
Dutch found New Neatherland
1624
Charles I dismisses parliament and persecutes Puritans
1629
Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630
Roger Williams convicted of heresy and founds Rhode Island colony
1635-1636
Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded
1635-1638