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Period: 2000 BCE to
The Mayans
The beginning of the Mayan history -
500 BCE
The Mayans
This is when the Mayans starting building big stone pyramids -
150
The Mayans
The cities including El Mirador were abandoned and the archaeologists don’t know why -
1200
Incas
The beginning of the Incas is when the sun god sent down 2 people to create a city called Cuzco -
Period: 1230 to 1260
Incas
The first ruler of the Inca Empire was Sinchi Roca, and this was the start of their own new government -
1250
Aztec
This is when the Aztecs settled near Lake Texcoco, and the people who found out about this only know this and nothing of their anything -
1325
Aztec
The Aztecs discovered Tenochtitlan -
1438
Incas
The ninth ruler of Cuzco was Pachacuti. While he was ruling he had the idea of splitting the government into 4 provinces. So he called the whole land Tahuantinsuyu, which means " The Land of Four Quarters" -
1487
Aztec
At this time the Aztecs were doing sacrificing people so that the person who did the sacrifice offered his/her life to the people -
1511
The Mayans
This is when the Spanish had first met the Mayans. They traded with the Mayans because they had like riches and good stuff to trade -
1519
Aztec
A guy named Herman Cortez and his team of Spaniards landed on the Gulf Coast, and they united with a tribe Tlaxcala -
1521
The Mayans
Years past since the Spanish had met the Mayans. The Spanish wiped out the Mayans and their cities, so the Mayans had to move and live with the Aztecs -
1526
Incas
A Spaniard guy named Francesco Pizarro made an expedition, and he wanted to find El Dorado. He was probably did find what he was looking for -
Aug 13, 1531
Aztec
After the alliance between the spaniards and the Tlaxcala, they went Tenochtitlan and brought the Aztecs and the empire to their knees. -
1572
Incas
This is when a Spaniards caught a guy Tupac, and he was the last of Sapa Inca.
