mesoamerica

By lilbossy
  • Period: 2600 BCE to 250

    The Mayan civilization

    Maya civilization. The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Originating in the Yucatán around 2600 B.C., they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, northern Belize and western Honduras.
  • Period: 2600 BCE to 250

    Mayan's first leader

    Pakal the great, While there is little evidence of monarchies in early Maya cities, the Classic period saw the rise of one legendary revered king. The rule of K'inich Janaab' Pakal the Great, or Janaab' Pakal I, of the Late-classic city of Palenque was one of great acclaim.
  • Period: 600 BCE to 900

    Mayan's capital city

    Tikal: Capital of Maya Civilization. A temple in Tikal, one of the Maya city states. The ancient Maya city of Tikal, in modern-day Guatemala, flourished between roughly 600 B.C. and A.D. 900. Starting out as a modest series of hamlets, it would become a great Maya city-state with more than two dozen major pyramids.
  • Period: 603 to 683

    Mayan's best leader

    Pakal the Great' He was king of Palenque for 68 years, longer than any other ruler in the Ancient Maya world!
  • Period: 1178 to 1231

    Inca's first leader

    Ayar Manco became known as Manco Cápac, the founder of the Inca. It is said that he and his sisters built the first Inca homes in the valley with their own hands. When the time came, Manco Cápac turned to stone like his brothers before him.
  • Period: 1200 to 1533

    The Inca's first city

    they founded a city the vally in the andes mountains around 1200
  • Period: 1200 to 1532

    What the Inca'a accomplished

    The Incas were magnificent engineers. They built a system of roads and bridges across the roughest terrains of the Andes. Through their system of collective labor and the most advanced centralized economy, the Incas were able to secure unlimited manual labor.
  • Period: 1200 to 1532

    How the Inca's died.

    Pizarro Executes Last Inca Emperor. Atahuallpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish conquistadors. In 1532, Atahuallpa's army defeated the forces of his half-brother Huascar in a battle near Cuzco.
  • Period: 1200 to 1532

    The Inca's capitol city

    Cusco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, was once capital of the Inca Empire, and is now known for its archaeological remains and Spanish colonial architecture. Plaza de Armas is the central square in the old city, with arcades, carved wooden balconies and Incan wall ruins. The baroque Santo Domingo Convent was built on top of the Incan Temple of the Sun Qoricancha, and has archaeological remains of Inca stonework
  • Period: 1250 to 1325

    The start of the Aztec's

    they arrived at lake texcoco at 1250
  • Period: 1251 to 1325

    The Aztec's major city

    We only know that they settled near Lake Texcoco around 1250. And they founded Tenochtitlan around 1325
  • Period: 1375 to 1394

    Aztec's first leader

    Acamapichtli, He became ruler in 1375 and reigned for 19 years.
  • Period: 1466 to May 30, 1520

    Aztec's best leader

    Montezuma II, ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. born 1466—died c. June 30, 1520, Tenochtitlán, within modern Mexico City
  • Period: 1519 to 1521

    how that Azetecs died.

    The Aztecs were conquered by Spain in 1521 after a long siege of the capital, Tenochtitlan, where much of the population died from hunger and smallpox. In fact, the conquest of the Aztec empire did not have an immediate impact on other Mesoamerican cultures.
  • Period: to 900

    When the Mayan's abandoned their cities

    From the late eighth through the end of the ninth century, something unknown happened to shake the Maya civilization to its foundations. One by one, the Classic cities in the southern lowlands were abandoned, and by A.D. 900, Maya civilization in that region had collapsed.