Mesoamerica

Maya

734 BCE

Yikin Chan Kawiil, known as "Ruler B", was one of Takils successful and expansionary rulers. He was no beast of burden, meaning that he didn't have anything to help them with like animals, just the muscles they had. So, what ever they made, they went level by level with just their own muscles.

Maya

869

Mayas are getting desperate because they got no food or a place to stay. They are the only ones that are known for holding records. Their writing are known as "Code X" meaning for their Hieroglyphic writing. Mayans are larger than the other life rulers.

Aztec

1100

Aztecs were originally from Aztlan, where no one knows where it is (many people believe it was in the Northwest Mexico). Also, no one knows why or what prompted them to leave their homeland.

Aztec

1427

The sun stone depicting the ages of the five suns of Aztec mythology is carved and set up at Tenochtitlan

Inca

1438

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui defeats the Chancas to control the Cuzco Valley and further expand the Inca empire

Inca

1450

Pachacuti Inca finds Machu Picchu in the high Andes.

Inca

1470

The Incas conquer the Chimu civilization based at Chan Chan

Inca

1471

Region of Inca, Tupac Yupanqui, doubles the size of the Inca empire

Aztecs

1487

People offered by the Aztecs to the god meaning lives of 84,400 people (mainly criminals and POW's) for a period of four days. If it was true, they would've had execute 15 people per minute constantly for four days straight.

Inca

1510

The Inca abandoned the settlement of Machu Picchu.

Maya

1517

The Mayan cities were completely abandoned because they had no food, no crops, no good soil. While that happened, the Mayans moved village to village because of that reason and 90% of the people were gone because of starvation.

Aztecs

1519

Herman (or Hernan) Cortes and Spaniards landed in the Gulf Coast. They also allied with a tribe who called themselves Tlaxcala. Together they conquered the capital city of Tenochtitlan.

Aztec

1520

Spanish forces were driven back. The Spanish and their native allies suffered heavy losses.

Maya

1562

This year of time, the Mayans were burning their texts because they thought they were talking to the devil. The Mayans burned about 27 hieroglyphic rolls.

Maya

1697

The remaining Mayans who lived inland, lived with the Spanish for uneasily over one hundred years right before the Spanish decided to capture the other last Mayans. Many had isolated villages that were left untouched for quite awhile and colonists before the people who lived in the latest years had preserved their culture.