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20,000 BCE
Solutrean Hypothesis
The first humans to migrate to the Americas came firm Europe during the Solutrean Period -
16,000 BCE
Coastal Migration Theory
The original colonization of the Americas that proposes that people entering the continents followed the pacific coastline, hunter-gatherer-fishers traveling in boats or along the shoreline -
11,700 BCE
Bering Land Bridge Theory
It suggested that at the end of the Ice Age, a land bridge existed that connected what is now Eastern Siberia with Alaska -
11,000 BCE
Ice Age
It occurred approximately 2.5 million years ago. This Age was a period of long-term reduction in the temperature, resulting in the expansion of ice sheets and glaziers -
10,000 BCE
Stone Age
materials were used to make man-made tools -
2000 BCE
Polynesian Contact Theory
Groups of Amerindians form South America settled on the islands at an undocumented point in history -
1974 BCE
Lucy (first human)
Lucy was found in Africa, near Nigeria -
1533 BCE
Incas
Peru, South America, stone buildings, their religion was polytheistic and their language was quechua -
1521 BCE
Aztecs
Northern Mexico, sweeping lines, their religion was polytheistic and their language was Nahuatl -
1500 BCE
Olmecs
Mesoamericanos, the start of agruculture -
1500 BCE
Mayas
Mesoamericans, pyramids, their religion was polytheistic and language was Mayan -
1519
Hernán Cortes
Hernán Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire -
1532
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca empire -
Columbus
When Christopher Colombia reached the new world