Migration to the Americas
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Natives and Spaniards
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A Few Natives American Tribes
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1200–400 BC Olmec
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1400–400 BC Zapotec
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1000 BC–AD 1500 Maya
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200 BC–AD 650 Teotihuacán
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1200–1521 Aztec
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950–1006 ~ Viking Explorers
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1492 ~ Christopher Columbus
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1497 ~ John Cabot
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1499 ~ Amerigo Vespucci
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1511 ~ Bartolomé de Las Casas
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1513 ~ Ponce de León
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1513 ~ Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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1519 ~ Hernando Cortez
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
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1541 ~ Hernando de Soto
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1541 ~ Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
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1542 ~ Jacques Cartier
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1565 ~ Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
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1566 ~ Sir Francis Drake
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1585 ~ Sir Walter Raleigh
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1585 ~ Roanoke
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