Timeline : A New World 1492 Columbus arrives in San Salvador 1522 Cortes conquers the Aztec Empire 1535 Church of England established 1542 The New Laws protect Native Americans in New Spain 1588 England defeats the Spanish Armada 1607-09 First European settlements in
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Timeline:A New World
1492 Columbus arrives in San Salvador
1522 Cortes conquers the Aztec Empire
1535 Church of England established
1542 The New Laws protect Native Americans in New Spain
1588 England defeats the Spanish Armada
1607-09 First European settlements in North America
Pre-Columbian Native Americans
And later came the people of the cities, the people already conquered. They brought their tribute; their goods went to become the victor’s, the green stone, the gold, the precious feathers, and still other precious stones, the fine turquoise, the lovely continga, the roseate spoonbill. They gave it to Moctezuma. It arrived there together.
John White, c1596
… all these, I could perceiue, differ little in language, fashion, or gouernment: though most be Lords of themselues, yet they hold the Bashabes of Pennobscot, the chiefe and greatest amongst them. (Smith)
“an Absolute Republick by itself, governed in all Publick affairs of War and Peace by the Sachems or Old Men, whose Authority and Power is gained by and consists wholly in the opinions of the rest of the Nation in their Wisdom and Integrity. They never execute their Resolutions by Compulsion or Force Upon any of their People” (Colden)
“All real authority is vested in them. The land, the fields, and their harvest all belong to them. They are the souls of the Councils and the arbiters of peace and of war. .. The children are their domain, and it is through their blood that the order of succession is transmitted.” (Lafiteau)