What we have below is an interactive timeline with pictures, dates, and descriptions related to the European colonization of the New World.
Using your knowledge of history as well as your best guess, try to drag the pictures to their proper place on the timeline.
Sources for images used in this section, as they appear from top to bottom:
- CristobalColon, Sebastiano del Piombo, Wikimedia
- Aztec drums, Florentine Codex, Florentine Codex, Wikimedia
- Francisco Pizarro, Wikimedia
- Slave ship diagram, Wikimedia
- Toussaint L'Ouverture, Wikimedia
- Our Countrymen in Chains, John Greenleaf Whittier, Library of Congress
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15th-amendment-celebration-1870, Wikimedia
- Rugendas - Negro e Negra n'uma Fazenda, Johann Mortiz Rugendas, Wikimedia