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A.P. U.S. History Notes

Chapter 1: “New World Beginnings”

Summary: 225 million years ago, Earth was one supercontinent (Pangaea) and ocean. About 10 million years ago, the North America that we know today was formed (geographical shape). The first discoverers of North America were nomadic Asians who wandered over here by way of an exposed land bridge from Russia to Alaska during the Ice Age. Though they were hunters at first, by 5000 BC, they had become hunter-gatherers with a diet of basically corn. Great pre-European Indian cultures included the Pueblos, the Iroquois, the Mound Builders, the Mayans, the Incas, the Aztec, and the Sioux, among others (map of tribes on pg. 8). The Indians revered nature and land, and didn’t carelessly …show more content…
33,000 – 8000 BC |First humans come to Americas from land bridge connecting Asia and Alaska. |
|c. 5000 BC |Corn is developed as a stable crop in highland Mexico. |
|c. 4000 BC |First civilized societies develop in the Middle East. |
|c. 1200 BC |Corn planting reaches present-day American Southwest. |
|c. 1000 AD |Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in Newfoundland (Vinland). |
| |Also, corn cultivation reaches Midwest and southeaster Atlantic seaboard. |
|c. 1100 AD |Height of Mississippian settlement at Cahokia |
|c. 1100 – 1300 |Christian crusades arouse European interest in the East. |
|1295 |Marco Polo returns to Europe from Asia. …show more content…
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|1488 |Díaz rounds the southern tip of Africa. |
|1492 |Columbus land in the Bahamas. |
|1494 |Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal. |
|1498 |da Gama reaches India. |
| |Cabot explores northeastern coast of North America for England.
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