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Anasazi and Cahokia similarities - tended to live comfortably with nature and in harmony with the sacred, which they found in every aspect of life they saw time as circular - not a steady line from creation to the present and future but a recurring series of events to be celebrated in rituals that involved the retelling of ancient stories honored shamans and priests, who had the special responsibility of helping result harmony when it was disrupted by disease, war, or climactic changes that brought famine saw the community and not the individual as the focus of life and labor farming was women’s work, hunting men’s hunting, agriculture, trade were major aspects of economies.Cahokia people of the Mississippi Valley, also known as the Mound Builders - a name given to Native American tribes that built large burial and ceremonial mounds on which religious activities and sports took place.Anasazi - Anasazi, meaning “ancient ones,” lived in modern day New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado 700 years before Columbus they developed Chaco Canyon, which was a large city in New Mexico, its roads prominent in trade Chaco Canyon was abandoned due to a prolonged drought.Clovis people - the name of early residents of North America whose spear points were found near what is now Clovis, New Mexico, in 1929 they most likely lived around 13,000 years ago.Bering Land Bridge - the name given to the land that connected Alaska and Siberia thousands of years ago, which is now under the current Bering Sea (Pacific Coast Theory).1498 - Vasco de Gama reaches India from Portugal.1493-1528 - Askia Muhammad ruled Songhay Empire at its heights.1492 - Granada falls to Christians, ending Islamic rule in Spain Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to the Americas.
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1488 - Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope.1485 - King Henry VII ends the War of the Roses, unifies England.1469 - Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon marry.1458 - Songhay Empire captured Timbuktu.1453 - Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople the Hundred Years’ War between France and England ends.1421-1423 - Chinese explore the Indian Ocean and East Africa.1415 - Portuguese begin exploration on the Atlantic coast of Africa.1350-1800 - Little Ice Age - the climate got colder agriculture suffered Europeans abandoned their settlements in places like Greenland if the power of its priests and kings in Cahokia depended on their control of the sun and the seasons, the Little Ice Age eliminated that power.1348-1350s - Bubonic plague begins in Europe.1325 - Rise of Aztec Empire founding of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City).
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1142 - Potential date for the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy.1101 - Norse colony of Vineland established in North America.950-1400 - Rise and decline of Cahokia by 1400, Cahokia was abandoned.850-1100s - Rise and decline of the Anasazi in Chaco Canyon founding of Acoma Pueblo.c 750 - Mound-building cultures expand in the Mississippi River Valley.30,000 years ago - Earliest signs of settlement in Western Alaska and California Stone Age carvings dating to this area found in France and North Africa.