Unit 2

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  • 225,000 BCE

    Pangea

    225 million years ago, what was once a huge continent, started drifting apart into continents.
  • 35,000 BCE

    Land Bridge

    A land bridge formed 35,000 years ago due to the melting of the ice. This bridge connected Asia with North America, and so it was useful for the people in Asia to migrate to the Americas.
  • 5000 BCE

    Hunter Gatherers

    People populating the Americas, such as the Pueblos, the Iroquois, the Mound Builders, the Mayans, the Incas, and the Aztec, became hunter gatherers. But then, they settled down as farmers to grow corn
  • 1000

    First Europeans in the Americas

    The first people from Europe to get to the New World were the Vikings from Norway. They left without any written record, so historians have little information about them.
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus Discovery

    The explorer Christopher Columbus wanted to get to the East by sailing West. Instead of reaching Asia, he reached the Americas. Later on, the transfer of plants ,animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World, was named the Columbian Exchange.
  • 1500

    Conquest of the Americas

    Even though other Europeans, such as Portuguese, had settled in the Americas, the Spanish remained the dominant group. The Spanish destroyed the Aztecs and Incas and kept their land. Later on, other countries decided that they wanted the success of the Spanish.

  • The English and North America

    Even though for most part of the 1600 North America was unclaimed, in 1607, the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia. In the mid 17th century, England had claimed several West Indian Islands.

  • First Plantation Colony

    As the English, kept spreading along the Americas, the first colony in Virginia and it becomes a royal colony

  • Slaves

    As the English grew sugar or different plantations, labor was needed. Because the Natives were unable to be used, Africans were brought in involuntary. These slaves were working for little or no pay in poor conditions.

  • Other Plantation Colonies

    Years later, there was plenty of colonies funded by the English in other places such as Maryland, Carolina, and Georgia.