Mesoamerica

Mayan

1697 BCE

Their history starts at about 2000 BC and goes to 1697, unlike the Aztecs the maya never formed an empire, instead stayed split up into various states & tribes however they had shared a culture, language group, & religious beliefs that made them a unified civilization.

Mayan

900 BCE

Large parts of the civilization collapsed again, cities which had existed for over 2,000 years were abandoned & people moved towards the coast, best theories are warfare, drought, disease, and political instability.

Mayan

500 BCE

They started building enormous stone complexes known as triadic structures, they were made up of several tall pyramids, all built on large stone platforms.

Mayan

300 BCE

Many of the temples were set up in specific ways to align with the sun & stars, city also had impressive stone causeways or bridge some of which were several miles long at its height in 300 BC as many as 250,000 people lived in this city.

Mayan

150 BCE

Many cities were abandoned completely over the most hundred years power shifted mostly through warfare & trade.

Inca

1200

Inca legend, the sun god Inti sent his son Manco Capac & daughter Mama Ocllo to earth, gave them a golden rod, and they wandered from one place to another, one day they found a valley, pushed the golden rod to the ground & found the Inca Empire and made cuzco the capital.

Inca

1230

Nearly 300 years Inca tribe slowly expanded their kingdom along with Andes Mountains, started out a tiny spot called cuzco, their land included Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.

Aztec

1250

Legend has it a long time, a group of people wandering that is now Central Mexico, had no homes, their divine god promised them land, they arrived at the shore of Lake Texcoco and began to built a city called it Tenochtitlan, establish a formidable empire lasted for 300 years.

Inca

1260

Almost 250 years Pachacuti ascended to the throne, he set up a federal government at Cuzco & divided the empire into four provinces, Chinchasuyu in NW, Antisuyu in NE, Contusuyu in SW, & Collasuyu in SW, called his empire Tahuantinsuya (land of four quaters)

Aztec

1325

Aztecs spoke a language called Nahuatl, they planted their crops, their solution was to make man-made islands or chinampas, reclaim enough land to support the ever growing population.

Aztecs

1486

Aztec Empire reached its height of Ahuizotl, ruled the kingdom from 1486 to 1502 passed away then his son Moetezuma the 2nd took over, he had no idea that more formidable enemy would challenge the Aztecs.

Aztecs

1487

Aztecs were very religious people, most infamous for their practice of human sacrifices some could be of a large scale, a religious celebration, Aztecs said to have offered the lives of 84,400 people over a period of four days.

Inca

1526

A spaniard name Francisco Pizarro wanted to find the legendary El Dorado, rumor says that the place was full of gold, he set sail from panama in August 1526 had two ships & 160 men with him, they finally reached the outskirts of the Inca Empire, were convinced that they had found El Dorado.

Aztecs

1531

In 1519 Herman Cortes & his fellow spaniards landed on Gulf Coast, allied themselves with a local tribe called Tlaxcala, they sacked Tenochtitlan on August and brought Aztec Empire to its knees.

Inca

1532

Pizarro returned to the area again, got to meet Atahualpa the encounter did not go well, not for the emperor himself, November Pizarro and his followers caught Atahualpa and held him captive, demanded a large amount of ransom for his release, Pizarro broke his promise and executed Atahualpa, September the Inca Empire truly faded away.