The Americas and Oceania

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  • 1200

    Voyages between Hawai'i, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands

    These voyages introduced new ideas about chiefs and priests from Tahiti to Hawai'i.
  • 1250

    Inca Settlement Near Cuzco

    The Inca settlement of Cuzco served as the capital of their expanding empire and was one of the most extravagant South American cities of the time.
  • 1300

    Emergence of Distinct Social Classes and Chiefly States

    Expanding populations encouraged Pacific Islanders to create complex political and social structures. Class distinctions formed between chiefs, artisans, priests, and commoners in many island communities, and rulers expanded their control over entire islands or island groups.
  • 1345

    Establishment of Tenochtitlan by the Mexica

    The Mexica arrived at Lake Texcoco and founded their city of Tenochtitlan. This would become the center of the Aztec Empire, and was an easily defendable, extraordinarily wealthy city.
  • 1400

    Emergence of the five Iroquois Nations

    The five Iroquois Nations were large-scale agricultural societies east of the Mississippi River which had risen from the previous Owasco people.
  • Period: 1428 to 1440

    Reign of the Aztec ruler Itzcoatl

    Itzcoatl expanded the Mexica people's power and territory through military conquests in Oaxaca.
  • Period: 1438 to 1471

    Reign of the Inca ruler Pachacuti

    Pachacuti ("Earthshaker") launched a series of military campaigns which vastly expanded the realm of Inca control, and is considered the founder of the Inca Empire.
  • 1519

    Arrival of Spanish Conquerors in Mexico

    This signified the beginning of the Aztec Empire's decline, and in 1520 the reign of the last of the Aztec kings, Motecuzoma II, would come to an end.