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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
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10,000 BCE
Land Bridges
Land bridges were covered again. -
7000 BCE
Planting Started
People started planting in Central Mexico. -
Period: 1300 BCE to 400 BCE
The Olmec People
First civilization that came and lived along the Gulf Coast of Southern Mexico -
800 BCE
The Adena
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
The 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. -
900
The Mayan's
The Mayan civilization disappeared. -
900
Mayan Traders
The Mayan traders moved goods up and down the coast. -
1000
The Cahokia
The Cahokia lived by the Mississippi River. They built rounded piles of earth to bury their dead. -
1100
The Aztecs
The Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico. -
1325
The Aztecs
The Aztecs moved to Lake Texcoco-Tenochtitlan. -
Period: 1400 to 1572
The Incas
The Incas established their empire in southern Peru. -
1428
Itzcoatl
Itzcoatl helped the Aztecs to form a three-way alliance with the Texcocans and the Tacubans to conquer rivals. -
1438
Pachacuti
Pachacuti came to power and started conquering neighboring communities. -
1492
Columbus
Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. -
1519
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes, the Spanish Conquistador, led soldiers to the Aztec civilizations. -
1532
The Incas
The Incas empire was weakened by the Civil War. -
1533
The Spanish
The Spanish invaded the Incas. -
1572
The Incas
The Incas empire ended. -
The Inuit's
The Inuit people lived in the northern most part of North America. They were and still are called eskimos and they live in igloos.
