Topic 13/16 Timeline

  • 1200 BCE

    1200

    1200
    The Olmec civilization develops along Mexico's Gulf coast
  • 1150

    1150

    1150
    Ancestral Pueblo peoples live in large complexes of stone dwellings in the four corners region
  • 1200

    1200

    1200
    The Inca settle in the Cuzco Valley
  • 1325

    1325

    1325
    Aztecs found the city of Tenochtitlan and began to gain power
  • 1400

    1400

    1400
    Portuguese explore the coast of Africa
  • 1492

    1492

    1492
    Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
  • 1520

    1520s-1530s

    1520s-1530s
    Spanish conquer Aztec and Incan empires in South America
  • 1522

    1522

    1522
    Magellan's expedition circumnavigate the globe
  • 1533

    1533

    1533
    The Incan empire falls to Spanish invaders in Western South America
  • 1607

    1607
    English Colonist's found Jamestown
  • 1619

    1619
    First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia
  • 1736

    1736
    The Treaty of Paris written at Palace of Versailles ends the French and Indian War