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13 Cards in this Set
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1800 B.C. |
Earliest Mayan settlements in central America |
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300-900 A.D. |
The height of the Mayan civilization |
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1501 |
Rodrigo de Bastidas est. Spains claim cen. Amer |
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1502 |
Columbus arrived in central America ; did not stay |
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After 1502 |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa began 1st colony Cen. Amer |
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1560s |
Spain has seized control of central America |
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1630s |
British settled the area that is now Belize |
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1823 |
Provinces seperated from Mexico |
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1840 |
provinces seperated into independent countries |
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1871 |
Belize offically became a British colony |
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1903 |
Panama gained its independence from columbia |
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1914 |
Panama canal offically opened |
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1999 |
panama took control on canal from U.S.timline |
