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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
history
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Aug 1, 1000
The Vikings
- The key to the story of the Vikings in North America lies in the Viking Sagas which tell the story of the history of their people.
- The scourge of North Western Europe, the Vikings, were also among of the greatest seafarers in the annuals of history.
- The Vikings were known as Ascomanni, ashmen, by the Germans.
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Aug 1, 1150
Angkor
- Its a region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer Empire.
- Which flourished from approximately the 9th to 15th centuries.
- The word Angkor is derived from the Sanskrit nagara meaning city.
- The Angkorian period may have begun shortly after 800 AD, when the Khmer King Jayavarman II announced the independence of Kambujadesa (Cambodia) from Java and established his capital of Hariharalaya which is now known as Roluos.
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Aug 1, 1346
Black Death
- The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people
- In the form of a conjunction of three planets in 1345 that caused a great pestilence in the air
- This disease is just like smallpoks it sperads though out your body and the world bit by bit.
- Black death started to end in 13521 CE
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Aug 1, 1500
Fur Trade had started
- Fur trade started because of a demand for fur in Europe.
- The North American fur trade began as early as 1530 was a central part of the early history of contact between Europeans and the native peoples of what is now the United States and Canada.
- In 1578 there were about 350 European fishing vessels at Newfoundland.
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Aug 1, 1554
Seven years of war
- Britain and France both want to claim the land along the Atlantic coast. Many of the battles were fought in North America
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Quebec
- Samuel de Champlain was the first person to step foot on the land whch makes this event ethnocentrism.
- In 1620, the construction of a wooden fort called Fort Saint-Louis started under the orders of Samuel de Champlain. It was completed in 1626.
- Samuel was murdered in 1635.
