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Stone Age, prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. The Stone Age, whose origin coincides with the discovery of the oldest known stone tools. -
The Bering Land Bridge Theory proposes that during the last Ice Age (around 20,000 to 16,000 years ago), a land bridge known as Beringia connected Asia and North America, allowing human migration. -
In this period there was the beginning of cultures. -
period which early complex societies began to form and developed agriculture, trade and religious practices -
The Mayans were a Mesoamerican civilization that lived in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras, and that stood out for their art, writing, architecture, astronomy, mathematics and mythology. -
The Incas are part of the Andean civilization and their empire was among the main ones of all the civilizations of America. -
Combination of the two lands
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Aztec, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. -
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. -
The Polynesian Contact Theory suggests that Polynesians made contact with the Americas before European explorers, possibly as early as 1000–1300 CE. Evidence includes the presence of sweet potatoes (a South American plant) in Polynesia before European contact and some genetic and linguistic evidence pointing to contact between Polynesians and indigenous peoples of South America. -
The classical period is consideres to be the highlight of the Maya civilization. -
a period in mesoamerican history when large urban centers took place, like teotihuacan -
a period in mesoamerican history which followed the colapse if the major classic period civilizations -
Mexicas Settled in Chapultepec
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In 1276 the Mexicas settled in Chapultepecwhere they remained until defeated in a terrible battle.
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In 1325 they moved to a small island which was part of an Archipelago in Lake Texcoco
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Foundation of Tenochtitlan and the expansion of a vast empire, rich in religious and cultural practices. -
In 1376 the Mexicas had a real monarchy
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South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532. -
Who reigned until 1469
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He had been a valiant warrior, and he was the High Priest of Huitzilopochtli
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Tenochtitlan could not have more than 80,000 inhabitants
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In this period the spanish were arriving to Mesoamerica. -
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 (areas without ice coverage) along the coast. -
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. -
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.