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Period: 1800 BCE to 800
The Maya
The Maya are an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE
The Olmecs
The Olmec were the first great Mesoamerican civilization. They thrived along Mexico's Gulf coast, mainly in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco, from about 1200 to 400 B.C., although there were pre-Olmec societies before that and post-Olmec (or Epi-Olmec) societies afterward. -
1095
Holy Land
The Pope Urban ll called for a holy war -
1200
Europe
they got their food from farming -
Period: 1200 to 1521
The Aztec
Aztec, self name Culhua-Mexica, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs are so called from Aztlán (“White Land”), an allusion to their origins, probably in northern Mexico. -
1271
Marco Polo travels to the East
Marco Polo traveled on an east word rout to Asia. -
1283
Polos journey home
by ships returning with ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain, and silk. -
1289
Crusades
Marco polo captained a galley-ship in the battle against Venice's rival city. -
1289
the end of the crusades
it was the year that the crusades -
Period: 1300 to
the Renaissance
when art and science were a big thing. -
Period: 1400 to 1532
The Inca
The Incas, an American Indian people, were originally a small tribe in the southern highlands of Peru. In less than a century, during the 1400s, they built one of the largest, most tightly controlled empires the world has ever known. Their skill in government was matched by their feats of engineering. -
1415
they stated the travel farther.
the Portuguese captured the fortress of Cauta in Africa. -
1419
portugal's discovery
they discovered Madeira Islands. -
1427
portugal's discovery in 1427
they discovered Azores Ialands in 1427 -
1434
success
Prince Henry's ships finally made a successful return voyage in 1434 -
1440
Jonhann Gutenberg invented the block printing technique
It changed the way people write things. -
1488
around Africa
Bartolomeu DÍas finally made it around Africa. -
1519
Cortes invades the Aztec
military engagement between the Aztecs and a coalition of Spanish and indigenous combatants. -
1529
Pizarro Invades the Inca
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On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. -
1532
The Inca fall under Pizarro
Pizarro's timing for conquest was perfect. By 1532, the Inca Empire was embroiled in a civil war that had decimated the population and divided the people's loyalties. -
Thomas Hobbes writes The Leviathan
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes and published in 1651. -
John Locke writes The Second Treatise on Government
John Locke published his Two Treatises of Government anonymously in 1690. -
The United States declares Independence
The Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States, was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It explained why the Congress on July 2 “unanimously” (by the votes of 12 colonies, with New York abstaining) had resolved that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.” -
France writes the Declaration of the Rights of Man
On 26 August 1789, the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Haiti gains independence
With the aid of the British, the rebels scored a major victory against the French force there, and on November 9, 1803, colonial authorities surrendered. In 1804, General Dessalines assumed dictatorial power, and Haiti became the second independent nation in the Americas. -
Bolivar and his soldiers begin Venezuela’s fight for independence
On 5 July 1811, seven of the ten provinces of the Captaincy General of Venezuela declared their independence in the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence. The First Republic of Venezuela was lost in 1812 following the 1812 Caracas earthquake and the 1812 Battle of La Victoria. -
Bolivar’s Gran Columbia gains its independence
The first governments did not fully achieve independence, but their main goal was to separate from Bonaparte's government. Individuals who were set on independence brought the Gran Colombian Revolution upon them. ... Simon Bolivar confirmed independence in the Republic of Gran Colombia in 1822. -
Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain
José de San Martín and his forces liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain on 28 July 1821. The two leading figures of the South American wars of independence were Simon Bolivar in the north and José de San Martín in the south. -
Mexico gains independence
Although Mexico gained its independence in September 1821, the marking of this historical event did not take hold immediately. The choice of date to celebrate was problematic, because Iturbide, who achieved independence from Spain, was rapidly created Emperor of Mexico.
