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CHAPTER 1 | THE COLLISION OF CULTURES | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
about 13,000 B.C.	Crossing from Siberia to Alaska
800 B.C.–A.D. 600	Adena-Hopewell culture
A.D. 300–900	Classical cultures of Mesoamerica
A.D. 600–1500	Mississippian culture
900–1200	Norse discoveries
1492	Columbus’s first voyage to the New World
1494	Treaty of Tordesillas
1497–1498	Voyages of John Cabot
1513	Ponce de Leon’s exploration of Florida
1517	Martin Luther’s “Ninety-five Theses”
1519–1522	Magellan’s voyage around the world
1519–1528	Cortés’s conquests
1565	St. Augustine established
1587	Settlement of Raleigh’s “Lost Colony” on Roanoke Island
1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1598	Juan de Oñate’s control of New Mexico
1680	Popé’s Indian rebellion in New Mexico

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Account for the origins of the “Indian” inhabitants of the New World.

Describe and explain the cultural exchanges that occurred between Europe and the New World following the discovery of America.

Explain the factors in European development that prompted and promoted exploration of the New World.

Describe the government and developments in the Spanish-controlled southwestern United States.

Explain the different characteristics of the French, Dutch, and English contacts with the New World before the permanent settlements of the seventeenth century.

Appreciate the role of the Reformation in the settlement of America.