U.S. History

Asian peoples migrate to North America across the Bering Strait

Global warming led to the extinction of mammoths and other large game animals

Agriculture developed in North America

Beginning of Anasazi culture

Mississippian culture

Erik the Red reached North America

Leif Erikson established a Norse settlement in North America

Crusades began

Anasazi culture vanished

Portugal took the Madeira Islands and begins colonization

Marco Polo's travel published in Europe

Columbus landed in the New World

John Cabot was first English explorer to North America

Vasco da Gama reached India via Cape of Good Hope

Spanish savagery and European diseases decimated Native populations in the Caribbean and Central America

Magellan's expedition sailed around the world

Spain explored the Southern portion of North America

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

Pizarro conquered the Incas

Spain found a colony at St. Augustine, Florida

The first English colonization attempt failed at Roanoke

Jamestown founded by England's Virginia Company

Champlain planted French colonies at Quebec and Acadia

John Rolfe planted the first English tobacco crop

Nineteen flint spear points discovered near Folsom NM which proved the first americans migrated to the western hemisphere at least 10,000 years ago.

The Bering Strait between Asia and Alaska was exposed ground during the last ice age and used by the first Americans to migrate to America from Asia

The transition from hunting and gathering societies to the domestication of plants and animals allowed vast changes in lifestyles and technology

Advanced Native American civilization of the Andes

Advanced Native American civilization of the South Central Mexican Plateau

Advanced Native American civilization of the Yucatan Peninsula

Capital of the Aztecs

cliff dwelling Native Americans in the southwest

Mississippian Native americans built earthen burial grounds

largest settlement of the mississippi culture

norse leader that founded a settlement in north america in 1001

Portugese prince

negotiated by Pope alexander the vi, treaty divided new territory by a line of longitude west belonged to spain and east belonged to Portugal

Italian explorer where America got it's name. he first proved that Columbus had not reached asia

first to sail around the world in 1522

spanish document that informed natives of the truth of christianity and the necessity to swear immediate allegience to the Pope and the crown

spanish explorers of the native people in the sixteenth century

conquestidor that conquered the aztecs

chief of the aztecs

conquestodor that conquered the incas

conquestodor that explored the southeastern united states

licenses granted by spain to adventurers in the new world that rewarded them with possession of conquered native villages

founded st augustine in 1565

mixed persons with spanish and native american

raw materials shipped from the new world to europe in exhange for european manufactured goods

first english explorer to north america in 1497

earliest explorer to new world from france

french explorer searching for northwest passage and wealthy kingdom known as saguenay.

nonexistent passage sought by europeans through north america to asia

eleven voyages to the area that is now canada between 1600-1635..planting residence in quebec in 1608 and nova scotia

french canada along the st lawrence at montreal

french canada along the atlantic now nova scotia

french protestants

well educated but religiously uncompromising catholic order that established missions in New France

french minister to the king louis xiv that forstered population growth in new france

jesuit priest that explored the mississippi river in 1673

explored the mississippi fiver for the french in 1683

first english attempt at colonization in north america in 1585 that ended in failure due to conflict with natives in 1588

responsible for planting the english at roanoke

broke england from the catholic church and became the church of england because they would not grant him a divorce

Declared Henry viii, instead of pope, the ecclesiastical sovereign of England

Protestant religious group that viewed the anglican church as corrupt and sought purification of the anglican church