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At this time, the migration of Asian peoples to the American continent through the Bering Strait begins -
Around this time, the migration of peoples to the American continent ends -
Full time agricultural villages spanned throughout the continent, especially in Mesoamerica and South America -
The Mayans develop in Yucatan, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras -
Olmec culture flourished in Mesoamerica -
The Mayans begin to flower as a civilization -
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Built in today's Petén, Guatemala, it was a Mayan ceremonial temple during the Classical Mayan period -
Rapid decline, major cities and ceremonial centers are abandoned -
This culture emerges on the Cuzco Valley in South America -
Full decay of the Mayans due to multiple factors -
During early 1200s, the Aztecs arrived in th the Valley of Mexico after migrating from Nothern Mexico -
The capital of the Aztecs was established on an island in Lake Texcoco -
The last Aztec emperor prior to the Spaniards arrival was born -
Rule of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui ended. He’s considered as one of the greatest rulers and conquerors in the annals of history. -
The first clash of Europeans and Native Aemrican civilizations ocurred in the Caribbean -
Christopher Columbus arrives at what he called San Salvador Island
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Signed by Spain and Portugal to establish a line of demarkation around the Cape Verde Islands -
Arrives in Brazil and claims it for Portugal -
Christopher Columbus landed in central America on hius fourth voyage to the Americas -
Beginning of African slave trading to the America’s began comming from the slave markets in Spain. -
Built in the Island of the Hispaniola -
Pope Julius II granted the Spanish monarch the Patronato real, or the right to nominate all church officials, collect tithes and found churches and monasteries in the Spanish Americas. -
Two-hundred and fifty slaves are imported to the Americas to work
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Leyes de Burgos were established by the Spanish Crown to outlaw some of the worst abuses to the native americans and make slavery illegal. -
Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the isthmus and discovered the Pacific Ocean. -
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas is named as the official Protectcor of the Indians. -
He was considered as a Quetzalcoatl by Moctezuma. The later was then imprisoned by Cortés. -
Panama City was founded on the Pacific Coast -
African slaves were brought directly from Africa by European ships -
Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec emperor was defeated by the Spaniards with the help of the Tlaxcalans and other Aztec enemies -
He converted 30,000 natives to Christianity in Nicaragua, and sends 500,000 others as slaves to other parts of the Spanish Empire -
Guatemala City was founded and became the administrative center for the part of Central America north of Panama -
Established by King Charles V -
Mayan lands are conquered by the Spaniards -
The Spanish Crown authorized the spread of slavery to Puerto Rico, Cuba and Jamaica. -
Francisco Pizarro sails from Panama and lands on the Peruvian coast along with 200 conquistadores, with the objective of conquering South America. At the time, the Incan Empire was at a civil war between Atahualpa and Huáscar, who were both executed (the first by Spaniards, the later by the first). -
The resistance of the Inca Manco Copac fails, and the empire falls under Spanish control. -
St. Thomas Aquinas in Santo Domingo -
By Francisco de Orellana in what is now Ecuador -
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Issued in Spain, it officialy elimiated the encomiendas. -
Encopmendero’s right to demand labor from his tributarios was outlawed -
Created in Mexico and Lima -
Araucan Indian chiefs that killed Pedro de Valdivia and defeated the forces of Francisco de Villagrá de Chile -
First instituted in Lima and Mexico City -
Code Noir was enacted by the French in order to regulate slavery in the French Caribbean which accorded the slaves basic rights such as marriage, manumission, and judicial recourse in the case of mistreatment. -
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Incan descendant that lead a two-year revolution against Spanish authorities on behald of the Indians -
The Araucanians of of Chile and Argentina, as well as the Apaches of Northern Mexico are finaly completely conquered by the Europeans. -
End of the African slavery in the remaining Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and Brazil