Timeline and Terms

Events

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Ácoma pueblo destroyed
Africans sold in Virginia
British colony established
Circular Atlantic Trade
Columbus’s Barcelona Letter published
Cortés in the Western Hemisphere
Cortés invaded Mexico
Drake on the West Coast
Dutch claimed New Netherland
Dutch established slave trade
Elizabeth I ascended throne
Encomienda system established
England united
English Reformation
Establishment of Acadia
Europe received tobacco from Western Hemisphere
European discovery of the New World
Founding of St. Augustine
France united
French settlement in Canada
Inter Caetera
Islamic caravans and African slave trade
Jamestown established
Leyes Nuevas implemented
Magellan’s circumnavigation
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
Modern slave trade began
Patents for colonization in North America
Pizarro conquered Inca Empire
Ponce de Leon in Florida
Portugal united
Quebec City founded
Raleigh received charter
Reconquista completed
Sante Fe founded
Slave-trading voyages of Sir John Hawkins
Spain united
Spanish Armada defeated
The Crusades
Tobacco shipped from Virginia
Treaty of Tordesillas

People

Amerigo Vespucci
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Christopher Columbus
Elizabeth I
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand Magellan
Francis Drake
Francisco Coronado
Francisco Pizarro
Giovanni da Verrazano
Henry Hudson
Henry VII
Hernán Cortés
Hernando de Soto
Jacques Cartier
John Cabot
John I
Juan Ponce de León
Louis XI
Marco Polo
Martin Luther
Pope Alexander VI
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Samuel de Champlain
Vasco da Gama
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Walter Raleigh

Places

Hispaniola
Jamestown
New France
Northwest Passage
Silk Road
Trans-Saharan Trade

Organizations

conquistadors
Muslims/Islam
Pilgrims
Songhai Empire