Stone carving of a fish (San Francisco, ca. 7000 BC) by early California Natives When did people reach California? The first people reached California about 17,000 BC. These early California [...]
Montana landscape with a moose calf wading People we call Athabascans or Dene lived in Blackfoot territory (modern Montana and Canada) in the Paleo-Indian period, by around 10,000 BC. They lived by hunting and gathering. They [...]
Archaic North America - the glaciers melted with the end of the Ice Age When did the Archaic period begin? After the Paleo-Indian period, came the Archaic period. The Archaic started [...]
West Texas Where did the Apache come from? Sometime around 1300 AD, some of the Athabascans, the ancestors of the Apache and Navajo people, left their homes in what is now western Canada and [...]
Algonquin history: Algonquin arrowhead from about 1 AD. It's made from stone imported from south of the Great Lakes From Athabascan to Algonquin Algonquin tradition says that people who called [...]
Adena Great Serpent Mound, Ohio (700 BC - 200 AD) Who were the Adena people? People called the Adena lived along the Ohio river valley (in modern Ohio) during the [...]
A velocipede Early wooden bicycles Bicycles were invented bit by bit in many different countries. They grew out of earlier inventions like wheels (from Central Asia) and wheelbarrows and cranks (from China), but Karl [...]
Queen Elizabeth I of England (1500s AD) Renaissance women in power As in the Middle Ages, European women held a lot of political power in the 1500s and 1600s AD. In [...]
Reproduction of a press from Gutenberg's time The invention of the European printing press with moveable type in northern Europe in the late 1400s AD was no accident: publishers had set out to find [...]
Unemployed people in Germany (1930s) Why did World War II start? The Depression left everyone in Europe feeling angry and upset, because so many people were poor. People were especially upset in [...]
