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Murrin Analysis

Chapter 1:
• Europeans brought staple crops as well as technology (guns, steel, etc.) to Americas.
• Europeans had created first global economy by 1600.
• Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain is 1492.
• Initial migration to Americas begins in 12,000 BC
• Shenandoah valley is occupied by 9000 BC
• Adena-Hopewell mound builders emerge in Ohio River Valley sometime between 500BC – 400AD
• Norsemen reach Iceland in 874
• The Toltecs dominate Valley of Mexico between 900 – 1250
• The Norse settle in Greenland in 982
• Norse found Vinland in Newfoundland during 1001 – 1014
• Incans begin to dominate Andes Mountains in South America during 1400’s
• Aztecs dominate Middle America 1400 – 1450’s
• Portuguese slavery factory established on African coast n 1448
• Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope in 1487
• In 1500, the Portuguese discover Brazil
• Cortes conquers Aztec Empire in 1519 – 1522
• Pizarro Conquers Incan Empire 1531 – 1532
• Coronado explores American Southwest 1540 – 1542
• Phillip II issues royal order for New Discoveries in 1573
• Phillip II unites Spanish and Portuguese Empires in 1580
• First humans to cross into North America come in small numbers and live primarily off animals for meat and fur with primitive vessels.
• By 12,000BC, humans had settled in Alaska and eastern Siberia.
• In 4000 years, glaciers had retreated significantly and humans had made it to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America.
• Neolithic practices begin during latter parts of migration
• Permanent farm villages begin to appear between 4000 – 1500BC in the southern parts of North America and most of the Mexican area.
• The Ming Dynasty of China was, at the time the world’s most complex culture.
• Chinese engineers invent compass, gunpowder, as well as early forms of printing and paper currency.
• Marco Polo travelled at age 17 to the Chinese court that he reached in 1271 and served under the emperor Kublai Khan for 20 years.
• According to Marco...