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30,000 BCE
Land Bridges form
Land bridges form where sea levels are thought to have dropped during Ice Ages. Hunters could cross from Asia into the Americas this way. -
10,000 BCE
Land Bridges disappear
Land bridges are covered by sea water and people were unable to cross back. -
Period: 4000 BCE to
Inuit Civilization
Live in the Alaska, Russia, and Canada. Eat mainly meat and still exist to present day. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 1200
Mound Builders
Build earthen mounds to bury their dead and religious purposes. -
Period: 1300 BCE to 400 BCE
Olmec People
The Olmec people lived along the Gulf Coast of southern Mexico. They grew corn, beans, and squash. The became farmers, fishers, artists, sculptors, and priests. They were the first Amercians to use stone in sculptures and architecture. -
1000 BCE
Earthen Mounds dated
Scientists date first earthen mounds. -
800 BCE
Great Serpent Mound
The Great Serpent Mound of the Aden people is built in the Ohio Valley -
Period: 800 BCE to 100 BCE
Adena People
One of the first Mound Builders along the Ohio River -
Period: 300 BCE to 900
Mayan Culture
The Mayans developed a complex culture in the forests of present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize of the Yucatan Peninsula. They used Maize(corn) as their main source of food and developed the corn tortilla. -
Period: 100 BCE to 500
Hopewell Mound Builders
Mound builders discovered in the Ohio River area -
Period: 200 to 1300
Anasazi Culture
A group of people who lived in the four corners of the southwest that used irrigation to water their farms in the desert. -
Period: 700 to
Mississippian Civilizations
These people settled in the areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. -
900
Mayan civilization comes to an End
Reasons are unknown as to why the Mayans disappeared. It may have been because of food shortages and war. Descendants still live in Guatemala and Mexico speaking the Mayan language and following the customs and traditions of their ancestors. -
1000
Cahokia Mounds
The Cahokia build small, round pile of earth to bury their dead along the Mississippi River. -
1100
Aztec Civilization
Aztec people settle in the Valley of Mexico. -
1300
Anasazi people leave the four corner area
The Anasazi people abandon their pueblos and cliff dwellings for smaller communities. -
1325
Aztec people relocate
The Aztec people move to Lake Texcoco. -
Period: 1400 to 1572
Incas Empire
Known as the Children of the Sun became a large empire of the early American civilizations. They began in the Andes Mountains and settled their capital city of Cuzco in a mountain valley in southern Peru. -
1420
Tenochtitlan City
The Tenochtitlan Citiy emerged on an island of Lake Texcoco with the Aztecs. -
1428
Aztec Alliance
Itxcoatl, and Aztec leader, helped to form a three-way alliance with the Texcocans and the Tacubans to conquer rivals for influence in the region. -
1438
Emperor Pachacuti
Pachacuti came to power and started conquering neighboring communities. Pachacuti and his son, Toa Inca, reigned over an empire that spread more than three thousand miles from modern-day Columbia to northern Argentina and Chile. -
1500
Early 1500's
The Aztecs ruled over 5 to 6 million people, either by conquest or commerce. -
1519
Aztec Civilization invaded
Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador, invades the Aztec Civilization and the Emperor Montezuma II dies. -
1521
Aztec Civilization Ends
The Spaniards defeat the Aztecs and the empire ends. -
1532
Spanish invade Inca Empire
The Spanish invade the Inca empire and rapidly declines after the last emperor in killed. -
1572
The End of the Inca civilization
The Inca Empire ends after Spanish invasion. -
Mississippi civilizations End
The Mississippian civilizations come to an end when Europeans arrive bring with them disease and death.