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2000BC- The Maya never formed an empire and instead stayed split up into various states shared a culture, language group, and religious beliefs, which manes them a unfied civilization in the eyes of historians.
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The Spaniards caught Tupac Amaru the last Sapa Inca. They excuted him on September 24. From that day on the Inca empire faded away and became a thing of the past.
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A Spaniard the name of Francisco Pizzarro organized an expedition so he wanted to find a place full of gold so he send Z ships with 160 men with him as they go they found Inca Empire they received warm welcomes.
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Herman Cortes and his fellow spaniards landed on the Gulf coast. They allied themselves with a local tribe called Tlaxcala together they sacked the capitol city of Tenochtitlan.
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At a religious celebration Aztecs were said to have offered the lives of 84,400 people (mainly criminals and pows) over a period of four days. It meant that they would have to execute 15 people per minute non-stop 4 days straight.
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the Aztecs have found Tenochtitlan fro the better because they've have made vegetables like corn, and tomatoes using this method they were able to reclaim enough land to support the ever growing population
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The Aztecs had a mysterious past, but they thought they seen an eagle devouring a snake while perching a top a cactus. most importantly around the 12th century they kicked out Aztecs out of their homes for no reason, and now they settled in near lake Texcoco.
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Sapa Inca ruled the Inca Empire from around 1230 to 1260. To most historians the story of Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo was a mix and fiction on the other hand they didn't even know if they ever existed.
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They had Golden Rod. it was a special Golden Rod that Manco Capac and his daughter Mama Ocllo if they stopped for rest they had to push it to the ground and that's how they were trying to protect it.
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500BC the Maya started building enormous stone complexes known as tradiac structures. They were made up with several tall pyramids surrounded by lower buildings, these text structures were usually used as temples.
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300BC 250,000 people lived in El Mirador around this time. it is the largest city Archeologists have discovered that the people who built the city were very good urban planners in fact many of the temples were set up in specific ways to align with the sun and stars.
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150AD all of sudden many Maya cities including El Mirador were completely over the next hundred years power shifted between the difference cities of Maya mostly through warfare and trade.
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900AD large parts of the Maya civilizations collapsed again they moved toward the coast the best theories are warfare, drought, disease and political instability.
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Pachacuti ascended to the throne as the kingdom grew increasly large Pachacuti set up federal government at Cuzco and divided the empire into four provinces. In the mean time he passed away his son took over and the Inca Empire could not last forever.
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Brought the mighty Aztec Empire to its knees.