Globalization

  • 1492

    1492

    Christopher Columbus reached the Carribean, thinking he had found Asia and believing he had found the trade route to Asia that they were looking for.
  • 1500

    1500

    Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovered Brazil.
  • 1519

    1519-1521

    Hernan Cortes conquers the Mexican Aztec Empire
  • 1532

    1532-1533

    Francisco Pizarro conquered the Peruvian Incan Empire
  • 1542

    1542

    Spain created new laws to determine the treatment of the Indigenous people.
  • 1565

    1565

    Spain established St. Augustine, Florida. This became the 1st permanent settlement in the New World for Europeans.
  • 1607

    The first permanent English colony was founded in Jamestown, Virginia.
  • 1608

    Quebec is established by Samuel de Champlain which kickstarted the Canadian Colonization by the French.
  • 1619

    First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia for English slaveowners.
  • 1620

    The Pilgrims established Plymouth County in Massachusetts.