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|+Pre-Columbian Americas Timeline | |+Pre-Columbian Americas Timeline | ||
! | !Dates | ||
! | !Event | ||
! | !Notes | ||
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| | |29,000 BC | ||
| | |Evidence of human activity of Yana River area in Siberia (regions not under the ice sheets due to lack of precipitation) | ||
| | |Near Baltic Sea | ||
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| | |26,000-23,000 | ||
| | |Last Glacial Maximum (greatest extent of ice sheets | ||
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| | |24,000 | ||
| | |Footprints dating | ||
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| | |13,000-3,000 | ||
| | |Peopling of the Americas | ||
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| | |12,000 | ||
| | |Clovis culture introduced in North America | ||
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| | |6,000 | ||
| | |domestication of maize (corn) in Mesoamerica | ||
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| | |600-1140 AD | ||
| | |Pueblo culture thrives in American Southwest; moved from cliff dwellings to complex villages, 700-900 AD; droughts starting 1130 led to decline and abandonment of Chaco Canyon | ||
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| | |1000-1350 | ||
| | |Mississippian culture; decline in urbanization starting 1250, possibly as result of disease, warfare, deforestation, and climate change (Little Ice Age droughts) | ||
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| | |1325 | ||
| | |Aztec capital established at Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City) | ||
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| | |1492 | ||
| | |Columbus's first voyage | ||
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[[File:Karte-Prärie-Indianer-Pferd-und-Bison.png|thumb|233x233px| | [[File:Karte-Prärie-Indianer-Pferd-und-Bison.png|thumb|233x233px|Spread of the horse. The black line defines the distribution of the bison.]] | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Algonquian|largest language group of North American tribes who occupied the northeastern coast, and central-east Canada; Algonquian tribes traded with the French and aligned with them against English colonists and their Iroquois allies, who were their traditional enemies}}<li>Cahokia (Mississippian culture city and mounds area located near modern St. Louis, MO; held 10-15,000 residents around 1100 AD and held perhaps 40,000 residents in the immediate region; if considered as a city in its entirety (doubtful), it was the largest city in United States region until 1780s Philadelphia)</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Algonquian|largest language group of North American tribes who occupied the northeastern coast, and central-east Canada; Algonquian tribes traded with the French and aligned with them against English colonists and their Iroquois allies, who were their traditional enemies}}<li>Cahokia (Mississippian culture city and mounds area located near modern St. Louis, MO; held 10-15,000 residents around 1100 AD and held perhaps 40,000 residents in the immediate region; if considered as a city in its entirety (doubtful), it was the largest city in United States region until 1780s Philadelphia)</ul> | ||