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30,000 BCE
Ice Age
Natural land bridges formed when land bridges dropped during the Ice Age and Asian hunters arrives in the Americas. -
Period: 28,000 BCE to 1492
Earl American Civilization
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10,000 BCE
Land Bridges
Land bridges were covered again. -
7000 BCE
Planting Started
People started planting in central Mexico. -
Period: 1300 BCE to 400 BCE
The Olmec
The Olmec people was the first civilization. They came and lived along the gulf coast of southern Mexico. -
800 BCE
The Adena's
The Adena's were the first mound builders. -
Period: 300 BCE to 909
The Mayan's
The Mayan's settled in southern Mexico and Guatemala. They used maize (corn) to make corn dough totrillas. -
Period: 100 BCE to 500
The Hopewell Mound builders
The Hopewell mound builders lived by the Ohio River -
Period: 1 CE to 1300
The Anasazi People
The Anasazi people lived by cliff dwellings. -
Period: 200 to 1300
The Anasazi
The Anasazi used irrigation to water their farms -
Period: 700 to
The mississippian's
The Mississippians people were architects. They are known for there
tremendous pyramid mounds -
900
The Mayan's
The Mayan civilization disappeared. -
900
The Miyan traders
The Mayan traders moved goods up and down the coast. -
1000
The Cahokia
The Cahokia lived by the Mississippi River. They built rounded piles of earth to bury their dead. -
1100
The Aztecs
The Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico. -
1325
Aztecs
The Aztecs moved to Lake Texcoco-Tenochtitlan. -
Period: 1400 to 1572
The Incas
The Incas established their empire in southern Peru. -
1428
Itzcoatl
Itzcoatl helped the Aztecs to form a three-way alliance with the Texcocans and the Tacubans to conquer rivals. -
1438
Pachacuti
Pachacuti came to power and started conquering neighboring communities. -
1492
Columbus
Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. -
1519
Heran Cortes
Hernan Cortes, the Spanish conquistador, led soldiers to the Aztec civilizations. -
1532
The Incs
The Incas empire was weakened by the Civil War. -
1533
The spanish
The Spanish invaded the Incas -
1572
The Incas
The incas empire ended. -
The Inuit
The Inuit people lived in the northern most part of North America. They were and still are called eskimos and they live in igloos.
