INCAN MAYAN AZTEC

  • Period: 250 to

    Mayan empire

  • 300

    Mayan cultural/social

    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

  • 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

  • Dec 8, 1400

    Incan cultural/social

    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

    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

    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

    incan political
    Incans had established their own small kingdom in the valley.
  • Dec 7, 1500

    incan economic

    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

    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.