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500
Flourishing of Hopewell culture
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Jan 1, 600
Hohokam civilization developed
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Jan 1, 1000
Vikings in North America
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Jan 1, 1100
Flourishing of Anasazi culture
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Jan 1, 1200
Aztecs in Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1400
Little Ice Age
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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus’s Barcelona Letter published
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Jan 1, 1493
Inter Caetera
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Jan 1, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Jan 1, 1497
Explorations by John Cabot
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Jan 1, 1500
Brazil Discovered
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Jan 1, 1502
Columbus’s final Atlantic trip
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Jan 1, 1512
Encomienda system established
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Jan 1, 1513
Balboa reached the Pacific
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Jan 1, 1513
Ponce de Leon in Florida
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Jan 1, 1519
Magellan’s Circumnavigation
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Jan 1, 1519
Cortes invaded Mexico
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Jan 1, 1523
Exploratins by Giovanni da Verrazzano
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Jan 1, 1532
Pizarro conquered Inca Empire
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Jan 1, 1537
Sublimus Deus
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Jan 1, 1539
De Soto explored the Southwest
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Jan 1, 1540
Coronado explored the Southwest
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Jan 1, 1541
French settlement in Canada
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Jan 1, 1542
Leyes Nuevas implemented
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Jan 1, 1550
Formation of the Powhatan Confederacy
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Jan 1, 1551
Council of Valladolid ruling
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Jan 1, 1552
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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Jan 1, 1562
Slave-trading voyages of Sir John Hawkins
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Jan 1, 1565
Founding of St. Augustine
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Jan 1, 1570
Iroquois Confederacy established
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Jan 1, 1576
Frobisher sought Northwest Passage
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Jan 1, 1579
Drake on the West Coast
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Raleigh received charter
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British colony established
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John White in Roanoke
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A Briefe and True report of the new found of Virginia
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Roanoke found deserted
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Acoma pueblo destroyed
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Establishment of Acadia
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Dutch established slave trade
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Patents for colonization in North America
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Jamestown established
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French-Huron alliance
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Quebec City founded
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Sante Fe founded
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Exploration of Hudson River
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Dutch claimed New Netherland
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Epidemic among American Indians in New England
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Africans sold Virginia
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Mayflower Compact and Plymouth landing
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Rise of Mississippian culture