American History Chapters 1 and 2
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- Marco Polo
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*1200's
*Influential trader and traveler - Johannes Gutenberg
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*1440
*Invented the printing press which increased the exchange of ideas - Christopher Columbus
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*1492
*Opened up route to North America for Europe - Strabo
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*25 B.C.
*Introduced the idea that Earth was a sphere and developed a grid system - Anasazi
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*A.D. 900
*Built cliff-side dwellings like Mesa verde, had an Egalitarian culture, and develped into an organized society - Mound Builders
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*A.D. 100
*Built great mounts, trade system, and large cities. - Cahokia
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*A.D. 900-1100
*Had a large city and built the largest mound - Iroquois
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*16th and 17th centuries
*Lived in Northeastern U.S., and set up an alliance of five Indian tribes - Leif Eriksson
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*1,000 A.D.
*Leader of the first group of Europeans to step foot on North America - Hernan Cortes
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*1519-1521
*Spanish conquistador who destroyed the empire of the Aztecs - Francisco Pizarro
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*1533
*Killed an conquered most of the Incan Empire - Conquistadors
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*1500's
*Spanish soldiers or conquerors who destroyed Native Americans such as the Aztec and Inca - St. Augustine
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*1565
*Spanish fort in present-day Florida - Giovanni da Verrazano
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*1524
*Sailed up the Atlantic coast for France, searching for the fabled passage to India. - Jacques Cartier
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*1534
*Sailed up the St. Lawrence River and established contacts with Native American trappers - Jamestown
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*1607
*First English colony (settled in Virginia) - Plymouth
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*1620
*settlement of Pilgrims - Charles II
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*1660
*King of England who granted large areas of land to his brother and friends - William Penn
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*1681
*Founder of Pennsylvania colony, which had religous freedom - Pope's Rebellion
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*1680
*Indian named Pope who led a group of Pueblo people against the Spanish, destroyed all but two missons, drove Spanish priests back to Mexico - King Philip's War
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*1675-1676
*Indians raided Puritan towns and slowed down English expansion - Bacon's Rebellion
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*1676
*Bacon led a group of farmers and attacked Indian tribes' land in the west - French and Indian War
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*1759-1769
*War fought between France and Great Britain, Britain won, and France lost all of its land in Canada and to the east of the Mississippi River