Since history can best be described as a sequence of events, I chose to represent it on a timeline. I strongly believe that when you reduce history down to memorizing a series of events you lose its importance. Spending days on end teaching each skirmish, battle, and key player for each, made my students lose interest every time. In this case, I chose to summarize the timeline into the most well-known European explorers. As such, this DOES NOT include mention of Leif Eriksson. This resource come