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They migrated out of Africa, heading east along Southern coastlines of Asia, through islands of the South Pacific.
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When they came to Australia, one group broke off and went north of Siberia. The northern group in Central Asia are the ancestors of about 1 billion people.
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After stopping in the Canary Islands for supplies, they headed out into the unknown ocean.
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The trip was hard, they faced storms, and all that seemed to be in front of them was endless sea. Columbus begged the sailors for three more days, and if there wasn't any land by then, they could cut off his head and sail off peacefully.
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On the third day a lookout high on the Pinta's mast yelled, "Tierra! Tierra!" The Bahama Islands were straight ahead
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In the month of September
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Cortés was to command his own expedition to Mexico, but Velázquez canceled it. Cortés ignored the order, setting sail for Mexico with more than 500 men and 11 ships that year.
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In the month of February. Cortés became allies with some of the native peoples he encountered, but with others he used deadly force to conquer Mexico. He fought Tlaxacan and Cholula warriors and then set his sights on taking over the Aztec empire.
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After facing off against Spanish forces, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlán to find a rebellion in progress. The Aztecs eventually drove the Spanish from the city, but Cortés returned again to defeat them and take the city
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Cortes won many battles against the Aztecs, and thanks to the help of neighboring tribes, along with smallpox he was finally able to overthrow them.
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King Charles I of Spain (also known as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) appointed him the governor of New Spain
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In the month of April, when the three small ships landed at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The ships were the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed, and they had been sent from England by a business corporation called the London Company.
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That winter was as awful a time as any in American history.
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They had had enough of this New World. Everyone marched out of the wretched settlement climbed aboard ship, said, "Goodbye, Jamestown," and headed for England. They didn't make it through, along the way they met another ship from England that made them turn back.
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Plymouth colonists embarked on a rescue mission to save Squanto after he had been taken prisoner by a sachem named Corbitant at the nearby village of Nemasket.
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With Winthrop temporarily voted out of office, the colonists established the Massachusetts Body of Liberties.
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Their population rose from one-quarter of a million people to more than a million and a half. Small factories developed. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston doubled and tripled in size.
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By the 1730s, people demanded institutions to hold the "many Beggarly people daily suffered to wander about the Streets."
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Poor Bostonians felt that Thomas Hutchinson, a rich merchant and official, had discriminated against them. His house mysteriously burned, while a crowd watched and cheered.
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The Stamp Tax was passed in 1765, but was later repealed after British stamp agents were attacked and had tar and feathers put all over them.
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Patrick Henry gave a speech in front of the Virginia's House of Burgesses against the Stamp Act. He threw on the floor in front of him a gauntlet--a glove-- which is a traditional challenge to fight.
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Sam Adams formed a group called The Sons of Liberty. In Boston, the Sons met under an old elm tree that Adams called the Liberty Tree.
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John Hancock pays duties on 25 pipes of wine, only one fourth of his ship's carrying capacity. British officials accuse him of unloading the rest during the night to avoid paying duties on the entire cargo.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-Britain sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.
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People in Boston showed King George and parliament and Lord Townshend what they thought about taxes on tea. They dressed up as Indians and climbed on a ship in Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of good English tea into the water. Americans called it the Boston Tea Party.
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In response to the British Parliament’s enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except Georgia drafted a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress. Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay were among the delegates.
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700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town’s common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse. Suddenly, a shot was fired from an undetermined gun. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead and 10 others hurt. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun
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they began their final attack, of British General Lord Cornwallis and nearly 9,000 troops. Yorktown proved to be the final battle of the American Revolution, and the British began peace negotiations shortly after the American victory.
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Slavery continued though. And an illegal slave trade began.
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landed redcoats, whipped American troops at Bladensburg, and then marched on, heading for the nation's capital.
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In Pendleton, Indiana he was stoned and beaten by a mob. His hand was broken and was never again as dexterous as it had been.
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