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The 1500s ran from January 1, 1500, to ... July 30 – The first encounter between Europeans and the Maya people of Central America takes place when the Columbus ...
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1619 – First enslaved Africans to the North American colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia aboard the White Lion. The House of Burgesses, the first democratically elected legislative body in English North America was formed in Jamestown. 1619 – Squanto return to northeast America after living in England.
The 14th century in America probably also brought decline of the Mississippian culture, especially in the northern states. Dendroclimatology suggests that severe droughts ravaged the American Southwest and especially the Southern Plains early in the period, leading to a rapid cultural decline.
– First native peoples enter North America from Asia via Beringia. 11,000 B.C. – Disappearance of the land bridge between North America and Asia. 5000 B.C. – Beginning of agriculture in the Tehuacán Valley matorral. 1500 B.C. – Emergence of Eastern Woodland culture. 1200 B.C. – Emergence of the Olmec culture.
The year 1500 AD in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. ... Ambrosius Ehinger, Bavarian explorer of South America (k. 1533)
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The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.