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Sep 1, 1400
Peopling the Americas
During the Great Ice Age, sea levels lowered and exposed a land bridge. letting people cross over into the Americas. (About 32,897 BC) -
Aug 3, 1492
Europeans Arival & Columbian.
When the Europeans arrived in 1492, they came across many Native Americans, including the Incas and Aztecs. After the discovery happened, they began to trade Old world resources for New world resources, also known as the columbian exchange. -
Sep 18, 1494
The Spanish and The New World
As the spanish began to exlpore through the Americas they becae hungry for gold and other rich prizes, resulting in the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), spliting the "heathen lands" -
Sep 19, 1530
The English
The protestant Reformation was launched in the 1530s after King Henry VIII, because of this, and the Spanish being Englands ally in the first part of the century, England took little interest in establishing their own colony. -
Jamestown
In 1606, Virgina Company received a Charter from King James I for a settlement in the New World. Blind by the thought of gold, Virginia sent three ships resulting in the making of Jamestown. -
The English and the Native Americans
When the english landed in 1607 the native people living in the James river area were dominanted by the chieftan powahatan. At first the Powahatan people thought that the english could be allies, but when De la Warr arrived in 1610 he destroyed all chances of the english and Powahatans living in peace. He came under orders of the Virgina company which resulted in the Anglo - Pwahatans war.
