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30,000 BCE
Natural land bridges started forming
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30,000 BCE
Asian hunters arrived in the Americas
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10,000 BCE
Natural land bridges were once again covered with water
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7000 BCE
People in South America and central Mexico started to plant seeds to grow food
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Period: 6000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Inuits arrived
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Period: 1300 BCE to 400 BCE
Olmec Civilization
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1000 BCE
First mounds were built
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Period: 800 BCE to 100 BCE
Adena People
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Period: 300 BCE to 909
Mayan Culture
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Period: 100 BCE to 500
Hopewell Mound Builders
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Period: 1 CE to 1300
Anasazi Culture
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Period: 700 to
Mississippian Civilization
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1000
Cahokia established
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1100
Aztecs settled in Valley of Mexico
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1325
Aztecs moved Tenochtitian
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Period: 1400 to 1572
Inca Civilization
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1492
Christopher Columbus landed in America
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1519
Spanish conquistador, Herman Cortes led his soldiers to the Aztec civilization.
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1521
The Spaniards defeated the Aztecs
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1533
The Spanish invaded