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The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its logosyllabic script—the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in pre-Columbian Americas—as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.
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The main economic activity of the Olmecs was agriculture. They had large crops of corn, sweet potatoes, avocado, beans, auyama, and yams. These Olmec inhabited southern Mexico, and are regarded as the Mother Culture of the Americas
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The people sent knights to the Holy land. crusades lasted 200 years. unable to liberate the Holy land from Muslim control.
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Farmed their own food.
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The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec peoples included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
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left for adventure. many people died on the trip.
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it finally ended after 200 years.
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started to come home and learned new things.
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writes a book that became really popular and inspires lots of people.
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new inventions and Europe renaissance. ideas from Greece and Rome.
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It was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was located in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilization arose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early 13th century. Its last stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.
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Portuguese captures the fortress of Ceuta of Africa
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Portugal discovery
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prince henry funded work which led to the Azores islands.
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had failed 15 times finally returned.
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Johan Gutenberg invented the printing press.
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marriage and worked on building a nation.
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he went farther than any other explorer and found south Africa tip.
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landfall on Hispaniola.
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Hernan Cortes came to conquer.
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Pizarro invades the Inca with war.
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Pizarro conquered the Incas and the Incas are destroyed.
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Thomas Hobbes wrote "Leviathan," first published in 1651, after a decade in which England fought two civil wars, inspiring Hobbes to explore the role and shape of a sovereign state.
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Naturalist and political philosopher John Locke was present to witness these events and was so compelled by them, he wrote what is known as the Second Treatise on Government.
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The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America.
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National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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proclaimed Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name.
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In early 1819, Bolívar was cornered in western Venezuela with his army. He was not powerful enough to knock out the Spanish armies, but they were not strong enough to defeat him, either. He made a daring move: he crossed the frosty Andes with his army, losing half of it in the process, and arrived in New Granada (Colombia) in July of 1819.
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In 1819, December 17, the Republic of Colombia, known as Gran Colombia was proclaimed that Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador were included in it. At the same time, Colombia gained its independence from Spain and Simon Bolivar became the first president of Colombia.
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was an Argentine general and governor who led his nation during the wars of Independence from Spain. He is counted among the founding fathers of Argentina and also led the liberations of Chile and Peru. Fast Facts: José Francisco de San Martín
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Celebrating Mexican Independence On September 16, 1810, a progressive priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla became the father of Mexican independence with a historic proclamation urging his fellow Mexicans to take up arms against the Spanish government.
