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| c. 8000 BC |
| | As temperatures warm, the sea level rises, submerging the Bering land bridge and isolating the Siberian immigrants as the aboriginal Americans | |
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| 5000 BC |
| | Human groups adapt to the conditions of northern Canada and then Greenland, living mainly as hunters of marine mammals | |
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| 1500 BC to 1500 AD |
| | On the grass plains of north America humans gradually hunt to extiinction several American species, including the camel, mammoth and horse | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | By now the mammoth, the giant bison and the horse are all extinct in America, partly because of the warming climate and partly because of the success of humans with spears | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes | |
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| c. 200 BC |
| | The Mochica develop a civilization, in the north of modern Peru, known for its realistic pottery sculpture | |
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| c. 950 |
| | Toltecs move into the valley of Mexico from the north and establish a capital city at Tula | |
| | Tula, Mexico Fotofile CG
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| c. 981 |
| | Eric Thorvaldsson, or Eric the Red, sails to Greenland when he is exiled from Iceland | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | Leif Ericsson claims to have made landfall at three places in north America, one of which he names Vinland - the land of wine | |
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| c. 1010 |
| | Thorfinn Karlsefni leads an expedition to north America, traces of which may survive in a longhouse at L'Anse aux Meadows | |
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