North America

From Cahokia and the Iroquois Confederacy to the United States and Canada.

3 countries·0 civilizations·3 major empires

Overview

Pre-contact North America hosted mound-building Mississippian societies, Ancestral Puebloans, and hundreds of Indigenous nations. European colonization, revolution and westward expansion produced today's states.

Historical timeline

c. 1050 – 1350Cahokia and Mississippian culture
1492 – 1776Colonial period
1776 – presentIndependent republics

Countries in this region

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United States

Washington, D.C. · 336 million

Indigenous civilizations, revolutionary republic and the 20th-century superpower.

Indigenous nations, New France and British colonial roots to a bilingual federation.

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