pre-hispanic history

By Belinda P. Mariño
  • Period: 2500 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Early Preclassical

    Agriculture, Ceramic, middle and south of Mexico, people became sedenterians. They make like rules
  • 2000 BCE

    Pre-classical

    Pre-classical
    It was divided by: Early Pre-Classical, Middle Pre-Classical and Late Pre-Classical, Olmecs, mother civilization, Zapotec and agriculture/ economy.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE

    Middle Preclassical

    It started the High Olmec Culture, it took the places between Tabasco and Veracruz. Social stratification was a principal characteristic in Middle Preclassical.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 200

    Olmecs

    They are considered the mother of all the Mesoamerican cultures, they did ceramic figures (the big heads was one of them) and where popular on their time (also now).
  • Period: 500 BCE to 900

    Zapotec

    They used to have a sedentary life. They also used to have a pantheon of gods, the most important of them was" Cocijo" ,he was the god of the rain. The had a development in mathematics and archicterture. They stablished on tree of the main valleys
  • Period: 400 BCE to 150

    Late Preclassical

    Changes of language/tongues, it surges the distribution of work, the religion came more clear
  • Period: 400 BCE to 900

    Mayas

    They were one of the most important civilizations in America. Their economy was based on the agriculture. And they made big pyramids. they had calendars
  • 100

    Classical

    Classical
    Its also known as the fourth period of the American pre-history. The civilizations that were "born" in this period are Mayas, Zapotec and Teotihuacan.
  • Period: 150 to 750

    Teotihucan

    There most important pyramids were of the Moon and Sun, so as the Temple of Quetzacoatl. one of their costumes were painting walls because it make like a mural painting of religious thematic.
  • Period: 900 to 1200

    Toltecs

    Their economy was the agriculture, and they worked with m metal and rocks.They made sacrifices to their gods. Their fall Marc the beginning of the Aztecs era.
  • Period: 900 to 1521

    Mixtec

    Their economy was based in ranching. Their writing was based on symbols(also known as pictography). The ofrend were humans and animals, most the birds.
  • 950

    Post classical

    Post classical
    There was a expansion of civilization into new geographic areas.
    Civilizations that were in this period are Toltecs, Mixtec, Mexica.
    Also Cristopher Columbus arrived to America.
  • 1300

    Preclassic

    It was separated by early preclassic, midle preclassic and late preclassic. Olmecs were the most important culture of the preclassic period.
  • Period: 1325 to 1521

    Mexica/Aztecs

    The Mixtec culture was guide by the great lord, followed by administrative then by the peasants. We call the "Aztec Calendar" because the used the math.