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Nov 10, 2020 · Much of the time, Chu sent tribute to the Western Zhou court, as was expected of the rulers of territorial states; however, Western Zhou troops attacked Chu, in what were described as “punitive expeditions,” in 960, 956, and 823 bce.
More than 15,000 years ago the first people came to the Americas, walking across the Bering Strait on a land bridge from Siberia, or maybe sailing east along the coast. These people spread down...
Rulers were kings at the top of a “steep” social hierarchy that was reinforced by religious beliefs. The king was a hereditary ruler chosen by the gods and a member of one of several elite bloodlines.
- Pre-Columbus Explorations
- Columbus and Later Explorations
- Conquering The New World
- Permanent European Settlements
~13,000 BCE: Hunters and fishers from Asia that archaeologists call Pre-Clovisentered the Americas from eastern Asia and spend the next 12,000 years exploring the coastlines and colonizing the interiors of North and South America. By the time the Europeans arrived, the descendants of the first colonists have populated all of both American continent...
1492–1493: Italian explorer Christopher Columbusmakes three voyages paid for by the Spanish and lands on islands off the coast of the North American continent, not realizing he has found a new land. 1497: Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot (ca. 1450–1500), commissioned by Britain's Henry VII, sights Newfoundland and Labrador, claiming this a...
1519: Spanish conquistadorHernán Cortés(1485–1547) defeats the Aztecs and conquers Mexico. 1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, funded by Charles V of Spain, sails around South America into the Pacific. Despite Magellan'sdeath in 1521, his expedition becomes the first to circumnavigate the globe. 1523: Spanish conquistadorPánfilo de Narváe...
1565:The first permanent European settlement is founded by Spanish admiral and explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519–1574) at St. Augustine, Florida. 1578–1580: As part of his circumnavigation of the globe, English sea captain, privateer and trader of enslaved people Francis Drake (1540–1596) sails around South America and into San Francisco Bay....
Oct 9, 2023 · The people who made them, now dubbed the Clovis people, lived in North America between 13,000 and 12,700 years ago, based on a 2020 analysis of bone, charcoal and plant remains found at...
Jul 10, 2023 · The earliest complex societies in North America began to emerge in the Ohio River valley around 1000 BCE, at the start of the Formative period, when mound-building cultures with large populations in the Eastern Woodlands became more common.
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Apr 27, 2017 · Researchers digging at the Cerutti Mastodon site, an archaeological site from the early late Pleistocene epoch near San Diego, California, found animal remains and stone tools that show the first humans were living in North America much earlier than previously thought.
