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Period: 250 to
Mayan empire
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300
Mayan cultural/social
The earliest Maya were agricultural, growing crops such as corn (maize), beans, squash and cassava. -
Period: Dec 8, 1200 to Dec 8, 1521
Aztec Empire
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Dec 8, 1300
Aztec social
The largest part of the population, the commoners, worked the land belonging to their kinship groups, paid taxes, traded in the markets, owned homes, and were citizens. However, they could also be drafted to work on public projects. Peasants worked as tenant farmers, household servants, and soldiers. -
Period: Dec 7, 1400 to Dec 7, 1532
incan empire
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Dec 8, 1400
Incan cultural/social
From 1100 to 1300 the Inca moved north into the fertile Cuzco Valley. -
Dec 8, 1400
Aztec political
At the top of the social hierarchy was the king. He was assisted by a great staff of professional administrators and advisers, all of noble birth, who formed the highest class. -
Dec 8, 1419
Incan Political
This vast empire was a theocracy, organized along socialistic lines and ruled by an Inca, or emperor, who was worshiped as a divinity. -
Dec 8, 1450
incan economic
during the reign of Inca Roca, they had conquered all areas close to Lake Titicaca in the south as well as the valleys to the immediate east of Cusco. -
Dec 7, 1500
incan political
Incans had established their own small kingdom in the valley. -
Dec 7, 1500
incan economic
by 1500s the empire stretched for 2500 miles -
Dec 8, 1500
Incan Economic
Because the Inca realm contained extensive deposits of gold and silver, it became in the early 16th century a target of Spanish imperial ambitions in the Americas. -
Dec 8, 1531
incan cultural/social
Pizzaro kills incan Emperor and brings spanish to the inca empire -
Dec 8, 1532
Incan cultural/social
between six and 14 million within an area extending from Colombia to Chile, in 1532 when the Spanish arrived. -
Mayan cultural/social
Classic Maya civilization grew to some 40 cities, including Tikal, Uaxactún, Copán, Bonampak, Dos Pilas, Calakmul, Palenque and Río Bec; each city held a population of between 5,000 and 50,000 people.