Central America

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  • 1250 BCE

    Mexico-Guatemala border

    Mexico-Guatemala border
    An earthen mound on the southern Mexico-Guatemala border dated to this period and was considered part of a chiefdom center of the Mokaya people.
  • 1200 BCE

    The rise of the Olmec people

    The rise of the Olmec people
    The tradition of the Mokaya people at coastal Chiapas and Guatemala came to a sudden end about this time. This appeared to coincide with the rise of the Olmec people.
  • 1000 BCE

    Nearby Coatan River began to rise and engulfed the settlement.

    Nearby Coatan River began to rise and engulfed the settlement.
    The settlement at Canton Corralito on the southern Mexico-Guatemala border covered at least 60 acres by this time and was believed to be a colony of the Gulf Olmec people. About this time the nearby Coatan River began to rise and engulfed the settlement.
  • 300 BCE

    Painted on plaster and stone

    Painted on plaster and stone
    In 2006 archaeologists at the San Bartolo site in Guatemala dated Mayan hieroglyphs painted on plaster and stone to this period.
  • 250

    Mayans

    Mayans
    During this time about a hundred thousand Mayans lived in the area of Time, meaning "the place where spirit voices are heard". It was abandoned after some 15 hundred years of continuous habitation.
  • 500

    Artifacts

    Cival, about 25 miles east of the much better known city of Tikal, was discovered in 1984. It was abandoned about 100 CE. Artifacts at the site dated to this time.
  • 800

    Important economic and cultural

    Important economic and cultural
    The Mayan city of Takalik Abaj, in later day Guatemala, served as one of the most important economic and cultural centers of pre-Columbian times.
  • 900

    Mayan Postclassic Period

    Mayan Postclassic Period. At its peak, the Mayan Civilization was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world. (Today there are 24 distinct Maya ethnic groups, each with their own language, totaling roughly 55% of the 2009 population of 14 million people.
  • 1500

    First true politic

    First true politic
    The director of the archaeological project of the Mirador Basin in Northern Peten, believes the Maya at that location developed the first true political state in America, (The Kan Kingdom), around 1500 BC.
  • 1500

    Pedro on conquest of the highlands of Guatemala

    Pedro on conquest of the highlands of Guatemala
    Pedro de Alvarado, sent by Hernán Cortés, was engaged in the conquest of the highlands of Guatemala from 1523 to 1527.