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2600 BCE
The Mayan civilization starts
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1200 BCE
Olmec civilization develops
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1150
Ancestral Pueblo peoples live in large complexes of stone dwellings in Ancient Southwestern America
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1200
The Inca settle in the Cuzco Valley
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1325
Aztecs found the city of Tenochtitlan and begin to gain power in Mesoamerica
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1400
Portuguese explore the coast of Africa
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1492
Columbus reaches the Caribbean
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1520
Spanish conquer Aztec and Inca empires in South America and Mesoamerica
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1522
Magellan's expositions around the world circumnavigates the globe
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1533
The Inca empire falls to Spanish invaders in South America
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English colonists found Jamestown
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First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia
