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Unit 2 timeline

  • 1450

    1450

    The printing press was created, increasing the spread of knowledge across Europe.
  • 1492

    1492

    Europeans arrived in America, yet 54 million people were already there; they split into separate tribes, created over 2,000 different languages, and developed many diversities.
  • 1493

    1493

    Columbus returned to Hispaniola with numerous amounts of men, horses, swine and cattle. The horses traveled spreading to as far as Canada. North American Indian tribes used the horses to improve their way of life.
  • 1494

    1494

    The Treaty of Tordesillas was created between Spain and Portugal. This divided The New World, Africa/Europe/Asia, evenly between both countries.
  • 1520

    1520

    The Aztecs attacked the Spanish, driving them away. Cortes, a year later, then surrounded the city, in hopes they would surrender with lack of essentials.
  • 1542

    1542

    Bartolome de Las Casas wrote The Destruction of the Indies telling the end of the Natives and to protest against the Spanish in The New World. He wrote about what the Spanish did not include in their writings.