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  2. Territorial evolution of California - Wikipedia

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    Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).

  3. List of archaeological periods (North America) - Wikipedia

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    c. 11,200 – 9000 BCE, California Post Pattern: c. 11,000 – 7000 BCE, NW California Folsom tradition: c. 10800 – 10200 BCE Dalton tradition: c. 8500 – 7900 BCE Archaic period, (Archaic stage) (8000 – 1000 BCE) by Time Period Early Archaic 8000 – 6000 BCE Plano cultures: 9,000 – 5,000 BCE Paleo-Arctic tradition: 8000 – 5000 BCE ...

  4. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.

  5. Californication (word) - Wikipedia

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    Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966 [1] and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Idaho, [2] Washington, [3] Colorado, Oregon, Oklahoma, [4] [5] and Texas. [6]

  6. Geology and geological history of California - Wikipedia

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    The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...

  7. Timeline of the American Old West - Wikipedia

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    The events in this timeline occurred primarily in the portion of the modern continental United States west of the Mississippi River, and mostly in the period between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the admission of the last western territories as states in 1912 where most of the frontier was already settled and became urbanized; a few ...

  8. Californios - Wikipedia

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    Women and the Conquest of California, 1542–1840: Codes of Silence. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2446-4; Casas, María Raquél (2007). Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820–1880. Reno: University of Nevada Press. ISBN 978-0-87417-697-1

  9. Lower Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.It spans the time from around 3.3 million years ago when the first evidence for stone tool production and use by hominins appears in the current archaeological record, [1] until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the Oldowan ("mode 1") and Acheulean ("mode 2") lithics industries.