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This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from before the lead up to the American Revolution (c. 1760).
The three principal colonial powers in North America were Spain, England, and France, although eventually other powers such as the Netherlands and Sweden also received holdings on the continent. Settlement by the Spanish started the European colonization of the Americas.
Timeline. For times predating 1000 BC, see Archaic period (North America) § Timeline. Further information: 16th century in North American history. 1000 BC–800 AD: The Norton tradition develops in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait.
4 lip 2024 · Here is a very brief timeline for known human settlement and history in North America from 1500 BC to 2000 AD: Pre-Columbian Era (Before 1492) 1500 BC: Rise of the Olmec civilization in present-day Mexico, often considered the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica.
6 maj 2021 · Pre-Colonial North America (also known as Pre-Columbian, Prehistoric, and Precontact) is the period between the migration of the Paleo-Indians to the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago and contact between indigenous tribes and European colonists in the 16th century CE which eradicated the Native American culture, replacing it with what ...
Period 1: 1491-1607. On a North American continent controlled by American Indians, contact among the peoples of Europe, the Americas, and West Africa created a new world. Topics may include.
7 sie 2019 · A Timeline of North American Exploration: 1492–1585. Traditionally, the age of exploration in America begins in 1492 with the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. Those expeditions began with a desire to find another way to the East, where the Europeans had created a lucrative trade route in spices and other goods.
