Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

c. 13,000–3000 B.C.

  • Asian migrants reach North America
c. 6000 B.C.

  • Domestication of maize begins in Mesoamerica
312

  • Roman emperor Constantine converts to Christianity
c. 600

  • Pueblo cultures emerge
632

  • Death of Muhammad
632–1100

  • Arab people adopt Islam and spread its influence
c. 800

  • Ghana Empire emerges
c. 1000

  • Irrigation developed by Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi peoples
c. 1000–1350

  • Development of Mississippian culture
c. 1050

  • The founding of Cahokia
1096–1291

  • Crusades link Europe with Arab trade routes
c. 1150

  • Chaco Canyon abandoned
c. 1200

  • Mali Empire emerges
1300–1450

  • The Renaissance in Italy
c. 1325

  • Aztecs establish capital at Tenochtitlán
1326

  • Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca
c. 1350

  • The Black Death sweeps Europe; Cahokia goes into rapid decline
c. 1400

  • Songhai Empire emerges
1435

  • Portuguese trade begins along West and Central African coasts
1492

  • Christopher Columbus makes first voyage to America
1497–1498

  • Portugal’s Vasco da Gama reaches East Africa and India
1500

  • Pedro Alvares Cabral encounters Brazil
c. 1500

  • Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy
1513

  • Juan Ponce de León explores Florida
1517

  • Martin Luther sparks Protestant Reformation
1519–1521

  • Hernán Cortés conquers Aztec Empire
1532–1535

  • Francisco Pizarro vanquishes Incas
1536

  • John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
1540

  • De Soto meets the Lady of Cofachiqui; founding of the Jesuit order
1578

  • Duarte Lopez visits the Kongo capital

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