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1200 BCE
1200
The Olmec civilization develops along Mexico's Gulf coast -
1150
1150
Ancestral Pueblo peoples live in large complexes of stone dwellings in the four corners region -
1200
1200
The Inca settle in the Cuzco Valley -
1325
1325
Aztecs found the city of Tenochtitlan and began to gain power -
1400
1400
Portuguese explore the coast of Africa -
1492
1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean -
1520
1520s-1530s
Spanish conquer Aztec and Incan empires in South America -
1522
1522
Magellan's expedition circumnavigate the globe -
1533
1533
The Incan empire falls to Spanish invaders in Western South America -
1607
English Colonist's found Jamestown -
1619
First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia -
1736
The Treaty of Paris written at Palace of Versailles ends the French and Indian War