Post-Classic Period, 900-1492 A.D.ĩ85-1000 Norse explores establish settlements in Greenland and Newfoundland.ġ168-1522 Aztecs enter and later control Central Valley of Mexico.ġ325 Aztecs occupy island called Tenochititlan.ġ350 Rapid Inca expansion in Andean South America.ġ415-60 Prince Henry the Navigator opens the great Portuguese "Age of Exploration".ġ479 Ferdinand II and Isabella I unite the crowns of Aragon and Castille in Spain.ġ492 Spanish Roman Catholics expell the last of the Muslims and Jews from Spain.ġ492 Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas on October 12.ġ494 Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between Spain and Portugal.ġ500 Pedro Alvares Cabral claims the Brazilian "hump" for Portugal.ġ507 A German cartographer publishes a map of the New World, using the name America in honor of Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512).ġ513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa views the "South Sea" from Panama, the Pacific Ocean.ġ513-21 Ponce de Leon explores Florida on two expeditions.ġ519-22 Cortez enters, lays seige to, and conquers Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.ġ519 Ferdinand Magellan begins a westward circumnavigation of the earth. 850-900 Great Mayan cities of Central America deserted. Sun temple built at Teotihuacan.Ģ17 Carbon dating of oldest Pueblo roof beam, Southwest.Ĥ00-1000 Tiahuanaco empire, Andean South America.ħ11 Tariq ibn Ziyad attacks southern Spain beginning the Islamic conquest there.Ĩ90 Maya produce first book in the Americas.Ĭ. Maya leave first written records in Western Hemisphere.ġ00 A.D. First dated Olmec monument, early glyph writing.Ĭ. Nazca coastal culture, western South America. Chavín in Andean South America.Ĥ00 B.C.-1500 A.D. Huastecas and other proto-Maya cultures in Mexico.ġ200-400 B.C. Beginnings of agriculture, including maize production.Ģ000 B.C. Migrants have made their way all the way to Chile.Ħ500-5000 B.C. Asian migrants cross Bering Land bridge and enter North America.Ĭ.
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