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Between 38,000 and 10,000 BC, the Paleo-Indians crossed the Bering Land Bridge into Alaska. These people were also hunter-gatherers.
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The earliest people in North America were hunter-gatherers. After 5000BC some of these people learned how to farm, and they settled in villages.
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The Olmec developed the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica. They are known for their use of stone in architecture and sculpture. They built the first pyramids in the Americas.
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Ghana was the first of these empires, followed by the kingdoms of Mali and Songhai.
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By the early 500s Europe was divided into many small kingdoms. This marked the beginning of the Middle Ages, a period that lasted about a thousand years.
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The practice of slavery had existed in Africa and in many parts of the world for centuries. Slavery in West Africa mostly involved only black Africans, who were both slaveholders and slaves. It changed in the 600s when Arab Muslims, and later Europeans, became slave traders.
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In AD 1325, the Aztec founded their capital, Tenoctitlan, on an island in Lake Texcoco. It became the greatest city in the Americas and one of the world's largest cities.
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The disease, known as the Black Death, spread across Europe, killing an estimated 25 million people.
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In the early 1400s Portugal became a leader in a world exploration. Prince Henry the Navigator, was responsible for advances that would make exploration more successful. Although he never set out on a voyage himself, Henry greatly advanced Portugal's exploration efforts.
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In 1488 Portuguese Navigator Bartolomeu Dias led an expedition from Portugal southward along the African coast. A storm blew his ships around the southern tip of Africa. This point became known as the Cape of Good Hope.
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The voyages of Columbus changed the way Europeans thought of the world and their place in it. Columbus's discovery also created conflict between Europeans countries.
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On August 3, 1492, Columbus's three ships set sail. The Nina and the Pinta were caravels. Columbus sailed in the larger Santa Maria.
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Moctezuma ruled the Aztec Empire in the early 1500s. Moctezuma's capital is Tenochtitlan
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In 1508 explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. He had conquered the island for Spain and founded the city of San Juan in 1511
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In 1510, the Spanish government legalized the sale of slaves in its colonies. Over the next century, more than a million enslaved Africans were brought to the Spanish and Portugese colonies in the New World
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Jacques Cartier led's France's next major exploration of North America. Cartier sailed into the Saint Lawrence River and traveled all the way to present-day Montreal, claiming the areas he explored for France
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European diseases had a devastating effect on the Native American population. No one knows exactly how many Native Americans died from European diseases. Fernandez de Oviedo reported that, of the estimated 1 million Indians who had lived on the island in 1492, only 500 people were left. Native American population north of Mexico was about 10 million, the number dropped to less than a million.
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Henry Hudson first sailed to present-day New York in 1609. He traveled for to the north eventually he reached a strait that he hoped would lead to the Pacific Ocean. Instead, it led into a huge bag, and named it Hudson Bay
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In 1609 some 400 more settlers arrived in Jamestown. That winter, disease and famine once again hit them colony. The colonists called this period the starving time. By spring of 1610, only 60 colonists were still alive.
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During the 1620s England's economy suffered. Many people lost their jobs. The English king, Charles I, made the situation worse by raising taxes. The unpopular act led to a political crisis.
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On September 16, 1620, a ship called the Mayflower left England with more than 100 men, women, and children aboard.
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Between 1629 and 1640 many thousands of English men, women, and children left England. More than 40,000 of these people moved to English colonies in New England and the Caribbean.
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Religious conflicts arose between Catholics and Protestants in the colony. To reduce tensions, Lord Baltimore presented a bill to the colonial assembly that became known as the Toleration Act of 1649. This was the first law supporting religious tolerance passed in the English colonies.
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In 1685 James II became king of England. He was determined to take more control over the English government, both in England and in the colonies. In 1686, he united the northern colonies under one government called the Dominion of New England.
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Between 1700 and 1755 about 135,000 indentured servants came to the middle colonies. About half of them moved to Pennsylvania. By 1760 Philadelphia had become the largest British colonial city.
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By the early 1700s English merchants were trading around the world. Most American merchants traded directly with Great Britain or the West Indies.
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Great Awakening is a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It affected social and political religion.
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In 1764 Parliament passed the Sugar Act, which set duties on molasses ans sugar imported by colonists. This was the first act passed specifically to fast money in the colonies.
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At a Boston town meeting in May 1764, local leader Samuel Adams agreed with Otis. He believed that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission. The ideas of Otis and Adams were summed up in the slogan " No taxation without Representation," which spread through the colonies.
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The slavery in Africa affects the modern day event now, because slavery still exists now. Human trafficking is one of the best example of slavery and also other things.
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Today, in some country in the world is still practicing slave use. Africa is still the top hit in the world. Examples like human trafficking, child abuse and etc. Child abuse is one of the best example on slave use. They force children of young age to work and abuse or torture them if they disobey. Wages are not given, and sometimes no food or drink too. Some unfortunate child will starve to death, or tortured to death.
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There are still countries that fight each into a war just wanting to conquer the land and take over everything. Like how North Korea is wanting to take South Korea and other countries like Japan, so they shot a missal over and attack innocent people.