Events
Maize became staple cropagricultural villages appearedLarge northern Indigenous
civilizations declinedLast Chichimecas (northern people) to arrive
in Valley of MexicoEuropean kings undermined the nobility
created more centralized statesRoman Catholic Church
underlying force of western
European societyMartin Luther started Protestant ReformationPortuguese had began trade with West AfricaBartolomeu DiazTreaty of TordesillasFerdinand Magellan
started 3 year voyage
around worldHernan Cortes
Conquered the Mexica EmpireEngland - John Cabot
Explored NewfoundlandSpain conquered Portugal7 northern provinces declared their
independence and became the Dutch RepublicSpanish King Phillip 2nd sent Spanish
Atmada against England, hoping to wipe out
Protestantism in both England and Holland (Dutch Republic)Spain was in declineRoanoke - First English settlementVirginia Company brought 104 settlers to..
JamestownJohn Rolfe introduced West Indian tobaccointroduction of headright systemVirginia House of BurgessesVirginia became royal colony
Church of England establishedOpechencanough led attack on Jamestown
beginning of 2nd anglo-powhatan warVirginia General Assembly
Virginia law declared all enslaved people as real estateMaryland - first settlersToleration ActEdging on a class war
Death of Anthony JohnsonArrival of 20 enslaved Africans in JamestownLegalization of slavery in Virginia (other places too)
(already were enslaving though)cases of inheritable enslavementforbade african gun ownership, militia membership, purchase of European servantslegal to kill an enslaved personAct of Trade and NavigationBerkeley - large grants to himself
and wealthy friends, didn't have to
pay taxesEnglish King William 3rd gave the Royal African Company a
monopoly of the English Trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved peopleInsurrection Actmost forced laborers were almost entirely made of
enslaved Africans and African Americanscultivation of indigo
in south carolinaPilgrims migrated to North America
on the MayflowerThe Thanksgiving, in PlymouthPlymouth is now a part of Massachusettsjohn winthrop join mass migration
to North America - PuritansMassachusetts Bay Colony made enslavement legal
the first to do itBoston merchants were selling enslaved
Africans to white colonists in Virginiaall towns had to establish schoolsRoger Williams - Rhode IslandRhode Islanders were granted self rule, no established church and freedom of worshipPenn founded PhiladelphiaPortuguese sugar platers began to
rely more on enslaved Africanswest indies surpass Brazil
in sugar production for worldFrench rename west half of Hisaniola
to Saint Domingueenslavement is hereditary
in Virginiabanning of interracial relationships20% of population in Chesapeake
was of African ancestry40% of population on Chesapeake
were enslavedenslaved people made up the majority
of the population in South CarolinaStono Rebellion in
South CarolinaGabriel's Rebellion
Richmond, VirginaGeneral Toussanit L'OuvertureHaiti became first free black,
self governing republic in
THE WORLDre-exports of sugar
and tobacco made up the majority
of British exportsenslaved people made up about
20% of population in New York60% of Anglo-American families
enslaved at least 1 personrapidly growing population surpassed
the supply of farmland (New England)
posed a challenge to the ideal of a yeaman societyHarvard was foundedWilliam & Mary - founded
by church of EnglandYale was foundedPrinceton (college of new jersey)Columbia college was foundedmale literacy was almost universalNew England farmers produced bread, lumber, fish, and meat
for sugar islandsNew york, new jersey, and Pennsylvania also
entered into trade with West Indies: wheat, corn, breadPeriods
Olmec people living among
gulf of mexicoTeotihuacandecline of Maya cities
warfare, trade disruptionsToltec Rulethe black plagueFrancesco Petrarch
Founder of HumanismEuropean writers began to imitate classic
literatureDesiderius Erasmuspope leoJohn CalvinPrince Henry the NavigatorGenoese Christopher Columbus started voyageFirst Anglo-Powhatan War3rd anglo-powhatan warprosecution of some white and black people for having relationships
more development of segregationBritish and French trafficking of enslaved people
- took over from the Portuguese and DutchHaitian Revolution
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