Timeline and Terms

Events

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Ácoma pueblo destroyed
Agriculture in North America
Aztecs in Valley of Mexico
British colony established
Columbian Exchange
Corn cultivated in Mexico
Cortés invaded Mexico
Council of Valladolid ruling
Encomienda system established
Epidemic among American Indians in New England
European discovery of the New World
Exploration of Hudson River
Flourishing of Anasazi culture
Flourishing of Hopewell culture
Formation of the Powhatan Confederacy
Founding of St. Augustine
French-Huron alliance
Hohokam civilization developed
Human migration from Asia into Beringia
Iroquois Confederacy established
Little Ice Age
Mayflower Compact and Plymouth landing
Pizarro conquered Inca Empire
Plant cultivation in North America
Rise of Anasazi culture
Rise of Mississippian culture
Roanoke found deserted
Sublimus Deus
virgin soil epidemic

People

Bartolomé de Las Casas
Christopher Columbus
Dekanahwideh
Francisco Coronado
Francisco Pizarro
Hernando de Soto
Hiawatha
Metacomet
Noble/Ignoble Savage
Pocahontas
Popé
Powhatan
Squanto

Places

Cahokia
Roanoke

Organizations

conquistadors
Iroquois League
Powhatan Confederacy