Chapter 12: In Australia and North America, there were still paleolithic people still living all throughout these areas and they were still gatherer-hunters. The Igbo and the Iroquois also rise up during this time. The Igbo arouse as a small village that was along the east niger river in Africa. Their economy was very small and rarely ever left their own tribe they traded cotton fish and precious metals. Areas were still living like neolithic peoples the rest of the world was progressing, in Europe and China, they were entering the modern era. The Ming dynasty lasted from 1368-1644 and this was when China saw an effort to eliminate foreign rule and invaders like the Mongols. In Europe, maritime voyaging began to become the next big thing. The first map was made in 1507 and North America is really small because it has yet to be explored by the Europeans. These voyages began by traveling down the est coast of Africa. In 1492 Christopher Columbus was funded by Spain and made his journey west across the Atlantic hoping to arrive east and ran into north America. At the end of the 15th century, the Aztec empire which is in present-day Mexico the Aztec empire was very large. The Aztec empire had about 5-6 million people that lived in it. The Inca empire appeared to be much larger than the Aztec empire being 10 million subjects.