Maya

By Amartin25
  • 100 BCE

    Mayan pyramids are built

    Mayan pyramids are built
    The first pyramids are built.
  • 900

    Mayan pyramids collapse

    Mayan pyramids collapse
    The southern lowland cities collapse and teotihuacan is abandoned.The reason for the collapse of the Maya classic period is still a mystery.
  • 925

    Chichen Itza

    Chichen Itza
    The city state of Chichen Itza becomes the most powerful city state in the region. It will rule for the next two hundred years.
  • 1250

    Maya

    After declining for years Chichen Itza abandoned.
  • 1441

    Mayapan

    The people rebel against the rule mayapan. The city is abandoned by the late 1400’s
  • 1517

    Maya

    The post classic period comes to an end with the arrival of the spanish and the conquistador. Hernandez De Cordoba
  • 1519

    Hernan Cortes

    Hernan Cortes arrives and explores the Yucatan Deninsula.
  • 1542

    Found

    The spanish found the city of Merida.

  • The Jungle

    The ruins of Tikal are discovered by a spanish priest who is lost in the jungle

  • Farming

    Farming villages begin to form across the maya region.