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500 BCE
Maya
The small Mayan communities begin to grow larger. -
615
Maya
Pacal was crowned king of Palenque and begins building new monuments -
869
Maya
The Mayan cities began to be abandoned due to failing crops, lack of clean water, and disease -
1200
Inca
The Incan empire was founded -
1325
Aztec
The chiefs daughter was skinned for human sacrifice by the Aztecs which cause them to be banished -
1428
Aztec
Aztecs declare war on Tepanecs. They collaborated with Nezdoqwota and become the leader tribe of Mexico. -
1438
Inca
Pachacuti rose to the throne and the empire began a quick series of expansions. The empire split into four provinces. -
1517
Maya
The Spaniards arrive to the abandoned Mayan cities -
1519
Aztec
Cortez lands on the Gulf of Mexico and starts moving towards Tenochtitlan. He arrives there during the fall. -
1520
Aztec
The Spanish stop a sacrifice and killed everyone taking part in it. The Aztec people became mad and killed 400 Spaniards and their allies, when they tried to escape. -
1521
Aztec
Cortez conquers Tenochtitlan and the last Aztec leader is killed. -
1532
Inca
Francisco Pizarro met Atahualpa, the current Sapa Inca, then attacked and held him captive that same year. -
1536
Inca
Manco Inca, the Sapa Inca, rebelled against Spanish rule and waged guerilla warfare to reclaim land for the next forty years. -
1572
Inca
The Spaniards caught the last Sapa Inca, Tupac Amaru, and Inca culture died out. -
Maya
Diego de Landa burned sacred Mayan texts and only four survive today.
