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POPULATION 1 C.E.
The population in 1 CE is estimated to have been 231 million. At this time North and South America were sparsely populated, as was Asia Pacific. The estimated population of New Zealand was zero. Southern Asia, Northern Africa, China and Southern Europe (parts of the same land mass) had relatively high populations. Colder Northern latitudes tended to have lower populations. -
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END OF ICE AGE/ POPULATION
Around 10,000 BC, with the end of the last major Ice Age, there began to be a lot more people in the world, and at the same time a global warming period meant that there were fewer good places to live. Things began to get crowded. So people began to live closer together, and we see the first communities and settled cities. -
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Intro to 10000 BC.
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ICE AGE YEAR 10000 B.C.E
About 10,000 BC there was an Ice Age. A lot of the world's water turned into icy glaciers, and so the oceans were shallower than they are now. Some places that are now underwater were above water. One of those places was the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska, and so more people were able to cross over from Asia to North America at this time, taking their dogs with them. -
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PYRAMID OF THE SUN 200 C.E.
The Pyramid of the Sun was hand built and completed around 200 C.E. in Teotihuacan, Mesoamerica (Mexico). The pyramid is composed of several different levels, with stairs leading from level to level. The Pyramid of the Sun is the largest structure in Teotihuacan, and the second largest in Mesoamerica. It is also the third largest pyramid in the world. Its sister pyramid, the Pyramid of the Moon, was constructed around the year 250 BC. Both pyramids were used as tombs. -
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THE HOPEWELL CULTURE 300 C.E.
the beginning of the Middle Woodland period, a new Native American culture developed that spread throughout the Midwest (then known as the Eastern Woodland) -- archaeologists mark this new cultural period as the Hopewell culture. "Hopewell culture," thus, doesn't refer to a specific tribe; instead, refers to an artifactually-observed culture and way of life that seems to have developed simultaneous across the great Midwest. Known for their remarkable trading and agricultural skills. -
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BOW AND ARROW 500 C.E.
The apperance of pottery, pit houses, and bow and arrows began to show up in North America from 500-700 C.E. Other crude tools were discovered around this time as well and the spear thrower and dart were abandoned. The bow and arrow is said to have been used hundreds of years before this, but didn't make it's apperance in the North Americas until around this time. -
Jan 1, 600
CORN / TEOSINTE 600 C.E.
As Indian people migrated north to the eastern woodlands of present day North America, they brought corn with them. Corn is thought to have originated somewhere in Mexico, though the wild form (teosinte) is extinct. As far as we know, the native people then domesticated corn, which became the most important cultivated plant in ancient America. -
Jan 1, 650
MISSISSIPIAN CAHOKIA CULTURE 650 C.E.
The beginning of the Mississipian Cahokia culture in America, the most advanced of the plains people. The Cahokia people will build the largest earthen mound structure in North America, Monk's Mound and create an astronomic observatory now known as Woodhenge, and trade from the Great Lakes to the Gulf coast. They decline in 1400, a century before the Europeans arrive. -
Jan 1, 1000
The Vikings in America 1000 c.e
Around 1000 c.e Leif Erikson set sail with a ship of 35 men to explore tails of a mysterious land far off in the west.The Vikings landed in the Americas and explored some of the North East before settling in what historians believe is the modern day island of Newfoudland. The Vikings called this land Vindland, meaning wine land, and spent a warm winter there. Leif Erikson eventualy sailed back to his home of Greenland never to return to the America's, but other vikings continued to sail to Vinla -
Jan 1, 1400
Inca 1400 c.e
The Incan Empire was the largest empire in Pre-Columbian America (around 12 milllion people). The Incan capitol of Cusco was in modern day Peru. The Inca's were known for their architecture as they were able to build long roads and bridges. In 1592 Spanish conquistador Fransisco Pizzaro was given a royal decree to conqeur the wealthy Incan civilization. -
Jan 1, 1400
Aztec's 1400 c.e
The Aztec's e dominated the mesoamerican region from around 1400 c.e to 1600 c.e. The Aztecs were a war like people who conquered neighboring tribes in order to expand their empire. The Aztec's also created vast cities incuding their capitol of Tenochitlan. "Cultures of the Americas, 1200 BC–AD 1600." The Gilder Lehrmen Institute of American History. N.p., n.d. Web. -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue 1492
Colubus controversy
On August 3rd 1492 Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina lin search for a faster trade route to Asia. Instead on October 2nd 1492 Colubus landed in the Bahamas, still believing that he had found a faster trade route to Asia. "Columbus Reaches the New World." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 05 Oct. 2015. -
Oct 6, 1513
Ponce De Leon 1513
As a govenor in the region of Hispaniola, Juan Ponce De Leon heard rumors of a fountain of youth on a neighboring island and decided to explore, Instead Ponce De Leon Landed on the peninsula, and tittled the peninsula, Florida for its lush vegitation. Ponce De Leon was given permission by the Spanish government to settle a colony in Florida but his attempts were failed when in 1521, before he colony was even established the colonists were attaked by natives leaving Ponce de Leon fatally wounded. -
Jan 1, 1520
Smallpox 1520 c.e
Smallpox was beleived to have reached the New World when a Spanish ship sailed from Cuba to Mexico in 1520. Within 3 generations (about 60 years) it is estimated that 90% of the indigenous people were wiped out due to this deadly disease. This disease helped the Europeans to conquer the Americas. For example the disease killed most of the Incan population including the emporer Huayna Capac, allowing Pizzaro to conqeur the weakend Incan civilization.
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The Lost Colony 1587
In August of 1587 115 settlers founded a colony on Roanoke Island. Later that same year John White, the govenor of the Roanoke colony, sailed back to england in search of supplies. His return to the colonly was delayed due to a naval war between Spain and England. White was unable to return to the colony until 1590, but when he returned there was no trace of the colonists. To this day historians still do not know what happened to the lost colonists of Roanoke.
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Eastern China 6000 B.C
To the east again, in China, people also began to farm rice and keep animals like pigs and chickens by around 6000 BC. Across the Pacific Ocean in South America and Mexico, people were also, independently, beginning to make pottery to store fish in, about 6000 BC, to farm corn and beans and to keep domesticated guinea pigs, by around 5000 BC, and llamas, by about 4000 BC. -
DECLINE OF THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION 900 C.E.
From the late eighth through the end of the ninth century, something unknown happened to shake the Maya civilization to its foundations. One by one, the Classic cities in the southern lowlands were abandoned, and by A.D. 900, Maya civilization in that region had collapsed. The reason for this mysterious decline is unknown. Some believe that by the ninth century the Maya had exhausted the environment around them. -
Weave Baskets, and make pottery
around 6000 BC. They made beer out of the barley, and they learned from Central Asians how to make pottery to drink it in. They began to spin and weave clothes out of flax and hemp and wool. One important site from this time period is the city of Jericho, in modern Palestine. -
Enviromental Changes
By 6000 BC, the new ideas of farming and keeping sheep had also spread to Greece, and by 5000 BC to southern Italy as well.
Further east, in northern India, people began to farm wheat and barley by around 6000 BC. South India may have had the same problem as South Africa, that the same crops that would grow in the north wouldn't grow in the south because of the different environment there. -
Domesticaed Animals
In West Asia and Egypt, people began keeping domesticated animals (mainly sheep at first) by around 7000 BC,
