Altantic Wordl and the Discovery of the New World

By afrey1
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus sailed the ocean blue

    Christopher Columbus sailed on behalf of Spain in 1492. He sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of an alternate trade route to Asia. He landed on an island in the Caribbean, thinking that he had landed in India, therefore calling the natives their Indians. Spanish monarchs agreed to fund three more of his excursions where he started to colonize and build an empire in the Caribbean. Columbus died thinking he was a failure for not finding a passage to India, but instead brought togeth
  • Jan 1, 1511

    First enslaved Africans come to the Americas

    With the colonization of the Americas, Native Americans began dying by the millions and Europeans needed slaves. Starting in the 1500s, they resulted in using Africans to help them with thier labor. There were many advantages to using Africans so they Europeans started shippping large numbers of them from Africa to the Americas. Over the next 300 years, 9.5 million Africans were importaded to the Americas.
  • Jan 1, 1521

    Cortez captures Aztec Empire

    In 1519, Cortez, who sailed for Spain landed in Mexico. He had soon learned about the powerful Aztec Empire and marched throughout the land until he found the capital of Tenochtitlan. The emperor or Tenochtitlan was Montezuma who believed Cortez’s was a god. Cortez’s desire was gold, and Montezuma thought it was his duty to do obey him. In 1521, Cortez had captured the empire after a brutal fight against the Aztecs. Part of the reason the Spaniards won was because they had superior weaponry and
  • Jan 1, 1533

    Pizarro conquers Incan empire

    In the city of Cajamarca in 1532, Pizarro met the Incan ruler Atahualpa.Alahualpa brought several thousand of his solders to the meeting but Pizarro and his troops attacted the Incans and kidnapped Alahualpa. In exchanged or his to be let free, he offered Pizarro one room full of gold and two full of silver. After Pizarro recived te treasures, he strangeled Alahuapa. Then, the other Incan troops retreated Cajamarca. Pizarro then conquered the Incan Empire.

  • English found Jamestown

    King James had found colony in North America and gave a company of ;ondon investors a charter to settle there. In 1607, they had landed on the coast of Virginia and named the colony Jamestown after King James. The people who settled in the colony died of hunger disease or battle with the Indians. They were more interested in finding gold then planting crops and starting a city. After a terrible start, the colony started up and became Englands first permanent settlement in the New Land

  • English found Plymouth

    In 1620, a group of people named the Pilgrims founded the colony of Plymouth. Plymouth was the second English colony, located in Massachusetts. The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom because they were persecuted.

  • French and Indian War ends

    As British colonies in the east started rising, more English started moving west, interfering with the French. In 1754, there was a dispute over the Ohio Valley which led to a war between the French and British known as the French and Indian War. The British colonists defeated the French in 1763 with the help of the Briish army. They then controlled all of French's land up until New Orlean's. All that the French was left with was modern day Haiti.