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1200 BCE
Olmec Civilizations develop and flourish in Mexico
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1150
Ancestral Pueblo peoples live in large complexes of stoned wellings.
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1200
The Incas settle in the Cuzco valley.
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1325
Aztecs found the city of Tenochtitlan and begin to gain power.
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1400
Portuguese explore the coast of Africa.
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1492
Columbus reached and explored the Caribbean.
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1522
Magellan's expedition circumnavigates Earth
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1525
The Spanish conquer the Aztec and Incan empires.
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1533
The Incan empire falls to the Spanish invaders.
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The English people found the first English settlement named Jamestown.
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The first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia.
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The Treaty of Paris ends the french and the Indian war.