Early American Civilization

  • Ice Age
    30,000 BCE

    Ice Age

    Natural land bridges formed when water levels dropped during the Ice Age and Asian hunters arrived in the Americas.
  • Period: 28,000 BCE to 1492

    Early American Civilization

  • Land Bridges
    10,000 BCE

    Land Bridges

    Land bridges were covered again.
  • Planting Started
    7000 BCE

    Planting Started

    People started planting in central Mexico.
  • Period: 1300 BCE to 400 BCE

    The Olmec

    The olmec people was the first civilization.They came and lived along the gulf coast of southern mexico.
  • The Adenas
    800 BCE

    The Adenas

    The Adena's were the first mound builders.
  • Period: 300 BCE to 909

    The Mayan's

    The Mayan's settled in southern Mexico and Guatemala . they used maize (corn) to make corn dough tortillas.
  • Period: 100 BCE to 500

    Hopewell Mound Builders

    The Hopewell Mound Builders lived by the Ohio river.
  • Period: 1 CE to 1300

    The Anasazi People

    The Anasazi people lived by cliff dwellings.
  • Period: 200 to 1300

    The Anasazi

    The Anasazi used irrigation to water their farms.
  • Period: 700 to

    The Mississippian's

    The Mississippian people were architects. They are known for their tremendous pyramid mounds.
  • The Mayan's
    900

    The Mayan's

    The mayan's civilization disappeared.
  • Mayan Traders
    900

    Mayan Traders

    The Mayan Traders moved goods up and down the coast .
  • The Cahokia
    1000

    The Cahokia

    The Cahokia lived by the Mississippi River. They built rounded piles of earth to bury their dead.
  • The Aztecs
    1100

    The Aztecs

    The Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico.
  • The Aztecs
    1325

    The Aztecs

    The Aztecs moved to lake Texcoco-Tenochtitlan.
  • Period: 1400 to 1572

    The Incas

    The Incas established their empire in southern Peru.
  • Itzcoatl
    1428

    Itzcoatl

    Itzcoaltl helped the Aztecs to form a three-way alliance with the Texcocans and the Tacubans to conquer rivals.
  • Pachacuti
    1438

    Pachacuti

    Pachacuti came to power and started conquering neighboring communities.
  • Columbus
    1492

    Columbus

    Christopher Columbus Landed in the Americas
  • Hernan Cortes
    1519

    Hernan Cortes

    Hernan Cortes, the Spanish Conquistador, led solider's to the Aztec civilizations.
  • The Incas
    1532

    The Incas

    The Incas empire was weakened by the Civil War.
  • The Spanish
    1533

    The Spanish

    The Spanish invaded the Incas
  • The Incas
    1572

    The Incas

    The Incas empire ended.
  • The Inuit's

    The Inuit's

    The Inuit people lived on the Northern America. They were and still are called eskimos and they live in igloos.