Interactive Timeline – Ancient Times – 1565

correct incorrect Hunters and fishermen from East Asia enter Alaska and settle North America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Global temperatures rise, causing rising sea levels and flooding that diminish resources but contribute to fishing in Japan and Southeast Asia

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Africa and Europe are largely populated by hunter-gatherers

correct incorrect Peoples in central Mexico begin to cultivate ancestor of corn

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Farming communities appear in Europe

correct incorrect Aleut and Inuit ancestors begin to arrive in Alaska First domesticated crops in North America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Egyptian communities build irrigation channels centered around the Nile, leading to establishment of the First Dynasty

correct incorrect Southwestern peoples begin to cultivate corn on a large scale

correct incorrect Bow and arrow spread throughout North America

correct incorrect Mississippian chiefdoms emerge in Mississippi River valley and in Southeast

correct incorrect Anasazi culture peaks in Southwest

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Medieval Warm Period occurs

correct incorrect THE WORLD: European economy grows, thanks to increased population, increasing capitalization, and developing markets

correct incorrect Cahokia reaches its zenith

correct incorrect Drought plagues Indian peoples in Mississippi valley Plains, and Southwest

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mongol Empire, founded by Temujin, expands westward

correct incorrect Na-Dene–speaking ancestors of Navajos and Apaches arrive in Southwest

correct incorrect Drought and raids compel Anasazi to abandon towns in Southwest

correct incorrect Cahokia abandoned

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Plague peaks in Europe

correct incorrect Iroquois Great League of Peace and Huron Confederacy founded

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Portuguese forces capture Ceuta in North Africa

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Portuguese mariners launch Atlantic slave trade

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Papal decrees authorize Portuguese conquests in Africa and Atlantic slave trade

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Marriage of Isabel and Ferdinand

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Bartolomeu Dias navigates past Cape of Good Hope

correct incorrect Jan Muslim forces surrender Granada, completing Iberian Christians' reconquest of the peninsula

correct incorrect Apr Christopher Columbus contracts with Ferdinand and Isabel to sail west across Atlantic

correct incorrect Aug Columbus's expedition departs Spain

correct incorrect Oct Columbus's expedition makes landfall in Bahamas

correct incorrect Jan Columbus departs Española for Spain

correct incorrect Mar Columbus returns to Spain

correct incorrect Nov Columbus returns to Española and introduces cattle, pigs, and sugar cane to the Americas

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Treaty of Tordesillas divides most of world into territories claimed by Spain or Portugal

correct incorrect Santo Domingo, first permanent European settlement in the Americas, founded on Española

correct incorrect Giovanni Caboto explores Newfoundland on behalf of England

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Portuguese mariner Vasco da Gama arrives in India

correct incorrect Enslaved Africans arrive in Española

correct incorrect European women arrive in Americas

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Spanish conquer Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Cuba

correct incorrect Spanish slaving raids depopulate Bahamas and likely start targeting Florida

correct incorrect Juan Ponce de León leads first recorded European visit to Florida

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Martin Luther releases Ninety-Five Theses against Church indulgences; Protestant Reformation begins

correct incorrect Jan First recorded smallpox epidemic reaches the Americas

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Voyage originally led by Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates globe

correct incorrect Feb Spanish expedition led by Hernán Cortés reaches Yucatán Peninsula

correct incorrect Oct Spanish-Nahua forces enter Tenochtitlán

correct incorrect Jul Spanish-Nahua forces conquer Tenochtitlán

correct incorrect First Franciscan missionaries arrive in Mexico

correct incorrect Spanish colonists found and abandon San Miguel de Gualdape in Georgia

correct incorrect Spanish expedition becomes first European group to enter interior of what is today the United States

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Spanish expedition launches conquest of Peru

correct incorrect Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto invades southeastern North America

correct incorrect Spanish expedition invades southwestern North America and southern Great Plains

correct incorrect Spanish expedition led by Juan Cabrillo explores California's coast

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Spanish begin to exploit silver deposits in Mexico and Bolivia

correct incorrect THE WORLD: "Elizabethan Settlement" brings religious peace to England

correct incorrect French privateers and pirates step up attacks on Spanish shipping in Caribbean

correct incorrect French attempt to establish colonies in southeastern North America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: William Shakespeare born in England, 1564

correct incorrect Sep Spanish forces defeat French and found St. Augustine, FL