ari timeline

  • Bering
    20,000 BCE

    Bering

    The Bering Strait theory, suggests that the first human settle in the Americas.
  • pre classic
    2000 BCE

    pre classic

    period which early complex societies began to form and developed agriculture, trade and religious practices
  • incas
    1400 BCE

    incas

    South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands
  • Mexicas
    1325 BCE

    Mexicas

    Foundation of Tenochtitlan and the expansion of a vast empire, rich in religious and cultural practices.
  • olmecs
    1200 BCE

    olmecs

    The Olmec were the first major civilization in Mexico. They lived in the tropical lowlands on the Gulf of Mexico in the present-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
  • Toltecs
    900 BCE

    Toltecs

    Influence on culture and architecture, with Tula as their center.
  • zapotecs
    500 BCE

    zapotecs

    Development of Monte Albán, one of the first complex cities.
  • classic period
    250 BCE

    classic period

    a period in mesoamerican history when large urban centers took place, like teotihuacan
  • mayas
    248 BCE

    mayas

    The Maya were a Mesoamerican civilization that inhabited the territories of Guatemala, México, Belice, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador.
  • Teotihuacan
    100 BCE

    Teotihuacan

    Monumental city with the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.
  • post-classic
    950

    post-classic

    a period in mesoamerican history which followed the colapse if the major classic period civilizations
  • Coastal Migration Theory

    Coastal Migration Theory

    The Coastal Migration Theory suggests that early humans migrated along the Pacific coastline from Asia to the Americas using watercraft, navigating a series of ice-free refugia
  • lucy

    lucy

    Forty years ago, on a Sunday morning in late November 1974, a team of researchers was excavating a remote site in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
  • Solutrean Hypothesis

    Solutrean Hypothesis

    The Solutrean Hypothesis posits that people from the Solutrean culture of prehistoric Europe (approximately 21,000 to 17,000 years ago) crossed the Atlantic Ocean along the edge of the ice sheets using primitive boats, reaching North America.