Who Was the First American?
Luzia in Brazil
11,500 BC
Kennewick in Oregon
7,500 BC
Mother in Cahokia
1200
Ishi in California
1912
Columbus
1492
Paleoindians 55,000 to 9500 BC
Pendejo cave in NM, Monte Verde in Chile 12,700 BC
Cactus Hill in Virginia 15,000 BC
Kennewick Man on Columbia River 7500 BC
Spirit Cave in Nevada 7215 BC
Clovis hunters from 9500 BC
Folsom to 8000, Plano to 5500 BC stemmed pts
bison kill at Great Fall, Manitoba
Mound-builders until 500 AD
Poverty Pt. 2000-700 BC had 1000-mi. trade
Hopewell Ohio serpent mound of Adena culture
Chumash in California by 600 BC - Ishi found in 1911
Anasazi until 750 AD - Mesa Verde, grow maize
Pueblo culture 950-1200 AD - Chaco Canyon
Miss. culture 600-1200 AD - Cahokia, Nursing Mother
10-story Monk's Mound, sacrifices, hierarchy
Muskogean culture 1200-1500 AD - Etowah in N. GA
6-story mounds, irrigation, copper
Algonquin culture 1200-1500 AD - Iroquois in N.Y.
Maya, Aztec, Inca from 300 AD - possible Hu-Shen
Irish monks by 600 - Saint Brendan's voyage
Leif Ericson to Vinland by 1000 - L'Anse aux Meadows
Genoese by 1291 - Vivaldi brothers
Portuguese navigators by 1415 - conquer Ceuta, Azores
Bristol fishermen by 1480 - to Brasil
Columbus 1492
Before Columbus
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Voyages of Columbus
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Significance of Columbus
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Class page
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