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גistory of the αmericas

  • 30,000 BCE

    Earth´s last Ice Age

    The sea level is about 120 meters lower than current levels
  • 14,000 BCE

    Beringia

    A land corredor formed by earthquakes and the end of the las Ice Age on Earth. It had very atractive fauna, which atracted hunters and eventualy, take them to America by ice melting on North America, which also rose the sea levels and Beringia drowned, making America isolated again.
  • 9000 BCE

    Agriculture

    Because of human spreading across America, planet´s warm up and agriculture, domestication on plants and animals started to grow. Avocados, chili peppers, squash, corn and cassava were bornt on Central and South America, thanks to domestication.
  • 5000 BCE

    Ceramics

    It was used as crop storage and for art.
  • 5000 BCE

    Chinchorros

    They are the first in the world to mommify their deads.
  • 3500 BCE

    Valdivia

    They were the first ones to produce ceramic in large quantities.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    The Caral Empire

    It is probably the first city to emerge on the continent, which brings together 30 sites and population centers. It is prosperous thanks to the irrigation system among other things.
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 300 BCE

    Olmec Empire

    [Their existence was so important and relevant, even though they disappeared, they impacted the origin of mesoamericans cultures and civilization].
  • Period: 900 BCE to 200 BCE

    chavin rising (south αmerica)

  • 700 BCE

    first ηηesoamerican ρyramid was built

    ιt was built on the city of ιa νenta, ωiωh was on the οlmec εmire.
  • Period: 200 BCE to 100 BCE

    cuicuilco city rising

    It declined because a volcano euroption
  • Period: 1 CE to 600

    τeotihuacan empire

    after cuicuilco destroys thanks to a volcano eruption from the volcano Xitle.
    It disapeared thanks to bandalizing and Calakmul won the war against Tikal.
  • Period: 1 CE to 700

    Nazca

    They developed on an arid zone, b buikding underground aqueducts, making osible ariculture. They drew gigantic drawings on the sand representing animals.
  • 100

    οbasidian is used as tools and weapons’ material

  • 200

    construction of the sun & moon pyramids

  • 300

    maya empire divides

    into two different city-states (calakmul tikal)
  • Period: 300 to 900

    zapotec εmpire

    ιt was very easy thanks to the οlmec empire ending with monte αlban as the capital
  • Period: 300 to 700

    Moche

    They hilighted thanks to its metallurgy and agriculture techniques, they spread rapidly.
  • 378

    Teotihuacan seizes power in Tikal

    Making a new dinasty and continuing the war against Calakmul
  • Period: 700 to 1000

    Wari

    They expand extremly to the north. They disappeared thanks to the meteorological fenomen ''El Niño''
  • Period: 700 to 1000

    Tiwuanaku

    They were ally of the Wari, originating on the shores of the lake Titicaca.
  • 800

    Mayan cities colapse

    Dinasties colapse, architecture is interuped and only a few cities survive (Chichen Itza and Mayapan).
  • 900

    Tula

    It also developed after the zapotec empire's vanishing, and soon, it became the new mesoamerican cultural center.
  • 900

    Mixtec people

    They developed after the zapotec empire colapsed.
  • 900

    Population growth on Mississipi

    A process of intense agriculture helped the development of many indigenous cultures called Mississipian cultures.
  • 1000

    Vikings' arrival to America

    Vikings from Greenland arrived to North American coasts. They built camps, but they are abandoned, and a few years later, forgotten.
  • Period: 1000 to 1470

    Chimor

    They developed after the Wari and the Tiwuanaku. They quikly became main center of the Andes
  • Period: 1200 to 1300

    Muiscas

    they developed on the north of South America. They covered their king in gold dust, before throwing him into a sacred lake.
  • Period: 1300 to 1500

    Aztec empire

    τhey were one of the most relevant and trascendental mesoamerican culture on mexico and they developed on an island on the Basin of Texcoco. It quikly expands thanks to its army and high taxes on conquered civilizations.
  • Period: 1300 to 1438

    Kingdom of Cuzco/Inca

    They developed where the Incas lived.
  • 1428

    Aztec Alliance

    It was made by Texcoco, Tenochtitlan and Tlacopan, which was called the Triple Alliance and then, the Aztec Empire.
  • 1428

    Azcapotzalco vanish

    Texcoco ally with the neighbor city and they destroy the powerful city of Azcapotzalco
  • Period: 1438 to 1532

    Inca Empire

    It developed where the Cusco where and started growing rapidly, and sorround the Chan Chan Empire. They expanded SO MUCH, but the king heard of unknown explorers on the north, he went to investigate and contract a terrible and unknown ilness, which killed all the rest of the empire, as well as some unknown navegaitors.
  • 1470

    Inca V.S. Chan Chan

    They cut Chan Chan's water suply and finaly, Chan Chan is defeated and conquered.