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250
Bow and arrow introduced
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300
Archaic upper Great Lakes cultures begin building effigy mounds
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Jan 1, 700
Cahokia settlement first established
The Cahokia was a city that cover 6 square miles or 16 square kilometers. It was bigger than most European cities. They had at least 120 mounts. And had a population of 10,000 to 20,000 people. The Cahokia city was a pre Columbian settlement which was the largest city in North America north of Mexico.
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Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1100
Upper Midwest Effigy Mounds are built
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Jan 1, 1000
Mississippian Culture establishes Cahokia as their capital
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Period: Oct 14, 1000 to Oct 14, 1400
Navajo and Apache migrate south from present day Canada’sNorthwest Territory and establish homelands in the AmericanDesert Southwest
Navajo and Apache migrate south from present day Canada’s
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Jan 1, 1050
Aztalan is occupied by Mississippians in Wisconsin
The Aztalan planned to reflected the belief system and social structure of the Mississippian. They constructed a wall about one kilometer long. And it was made out of logs. Then covered the wall with clay and fire. The Aztalan contained a larged number of mounds,and platforms.
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Jan 1, 1070
Construction of the Great Serpent Effigy Mound in Ohio
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Jan 1, 1100
Anasazi build cliff cities at Mesa Verde, Colorado
.Anasazi constructed a villages in to the side of a cliffs. Even thoy that didn’t construct a writing system but they did leave they rich archaeological remains. Some people call them Anasazi because it is a Navajo word for the ancient ones or enemy ancestors. the cliffs at Mesa Verde contain about 150 rooms.
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Jan 1, 1142
Iroquois League creates a constitution
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Jan 1, 1200
Monks Mound is completed at Cahokia
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Jan 1, 1400
Cahokia is abandoned
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Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus makes landfall in the Caribbean
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Oct 14, 1520
The Aztec Empire at Mexico City falls to Hernando Cortes
The Aztec Empire fell to the spaniards. First killing thousands of people, whether you or your neighbours, simply can’t be good for a society. Disease played a huge part in the fall Aztec Empire. the Mexicas were simply used to playing by different rules.
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Jan 1, 1565
St. Augustine, oldest European city in North America, is founded
Found in 1565,St. Augustineis the oldest city continuously occupied settlement. And the start of the First Spanish Colonial Period.
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Spanish establish colony near present day Santa Fe, New Mexico
.In 1598, an advance party of the expedition arrived at the northern New Mexico. Here the Spanish decided to stop, renamed the village San Juan de Los Caballeros and the first Spanish capital of New Mexico.
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Mississippian towns in Ohio are abandoned
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Construction of Monks Mound, Eastern U.S.’s largest earthwork, is begun at Cahokia
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Bow and arrow spreads across the North American Continent
