NORTH AMERICA TIMELINE Subtitle 30 000 YEARS AGO

NORTH AMERICA TIMELINE Subtitle

30, 000 YEARS AGO Humans reach North America through the Bering Land Bridge Sea levels lower during an ice age allowing the land bridge to form. 15, 000 YEARS AGO By now, humans reach the central plains

8, 000 BCE The ice age ends, submerging the land bridge and isolating nomadic humans in North America. 5, 000 BCE Since moving into the eastern coast-lands, hunter-gatherers adapt to hunting marine life.

1, 000 BCE The camel, horse, mammoth and giant bison are hunted to extinction in North America. 200 BCE Mochica develop a civilization in modern Peru known for its sculptures.

950 CE The Toltecs establish a civilization in the valley of Mexico. 981 CE Eric Thorvaldsson sails to Greenland from Iceland. The Viking settlement ends in 1410.

1, 000 CE Leif Ericson claims landfall in three places in North America. 1487 CE The Inca empire extends to the a second capital in Quito.

1497 CE England commissions John Cabot to navigate across the Atlantic to claim territory. He finds Newfoundland. 1507 CE The proposal is delivered that the continent should be named after explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

1525 CE French explorer Jacques Cartier travels the St. Lawrence river, reaching Montreal in 1535. 1585 CE The English settle Roanoke Island with disastrous results.

1607 CE Jamestown established 1608 CE Quebec established as a French fur trade post.