Leif Erikson was an Icelandic Viking who spent his life sailing between the lands of Norway, Greenland, Iceland, and Vinland (now known as Nova Scotia). He is most well known in history for landing in North America nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus is believed to have discovered ...
Bartholomeu Dias of Portugal rounds the southern tip of Africa —1488 Christopher Columbus sails to the New World —1492 Süleyman I, later emperor of the Ottoman Empire,is born—1494 Vasco da Gama finds a sea route to India —1497-99 ...
The history of the Americas did not begin with Christopher Columbus. In fact, the people indigenous to the "New World" had been thriving here for more than 30,000 years. The Timeline of Native Americans explores the most significant moments in the rich history of America's indigenous people,...
1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the New World.[15] Modern History 16-18th Centuries Year Part 1-6 Continuity 16th century Disappearance of an Aztec tribe that harnessed the power of the Stone Mask.[16] Cases of what was formerly known as split personality disorders, similar to the scen...
Long before Christopher Columbus stepped foot on what would come to be known as the Americas, the expansive territory was inhabited by Native Americans. Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, as more explorers sought to colonize their land, Native Americans responded in various stages, from cooper...
10,000 B.C. Humans make it to the southern most point of South America. 8,000 B.C. TheNeolithic Revolutionand an agriculture way of life is discovered in the Fertile Crescent/Middle Eastern area. Cows and sheep were domesticated and crops where manipulated and tended. (interesting fact: fi...
to get a grip on what life was like. For some, life in the Americas included large prosperous cities with advanced agricultural cultures. Some claim that the population in 1491 would have approached that of Europe and that life in the Americas during the height of native population was better...
Upon arrival on the island of Hispaniola,Christopher Columbusencountered the Taino people, population 60,000. By 1548, the population stood at less than 500. This scenario repeated itself throughout the Americas. In 1520, theAztec Empirewas destroyed by a smallpox infection. The disease killed ma...
Voyage of Christopher Columbus from Spain to the edge of the Americas. The beginning of plant exchanges between Europe and the Americas. Christopher Columbus: A Culinary History1497 CEPortuguese control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean. ...
of the Renaissance by the year 1500. The journey of Christopher Columbus to the New World in 1492 also marks a major historical event, as it completely transformed life in the New World and deeply changed life in the Old World. With the deaths of many workers from the plague, those who ...