B.C. |
AMERICA |
OLD WORLD |
6500 |
First Agriculture |
Farming well under way in Asia and the Near East |
5000 |
Cultivation of maize |
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3500 |
Seasonal villages |
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3000 |
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Egyptian First Dynasty |
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First walled cities in Sumer |
2500 |
Pottery appears |
Egyptians construct Cheops Pyramid |
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Rise of cities of Indus valley |
2000 |
First permanent villages |
Shang Dynasty in China |
1700 |
Pre classic period till 300 A.D. |
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1500 |
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1200 |
Olmec civilization (San Lorenzo, La Venta, Tres Zapotes) till 400 B.C. |
Trojan War, Phoenicians develop alphabet |
1100 |
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Chow Dynasty in China |
1000 |
Iniciation of Mayan Mathematics |
Arabs introduce the decimal system Carthage founded by Phoenicians |
800 |
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey |
700 |
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Golden age of Greece begins |
600 |
Mayan settlement in Tikal |
Etruscan kings rule in Rome |
500 |
Construction of astronomical center of Uaxactun |
Buddha, Socrates |
400 |
Late Olmec (Tres Zapotes) till 100 B.C. Zapotecs (Monte Alban) till 1500 A.C. |
Alexander the Great |
300 |
First Mayan settlements and ceremonial calendar (Copan, Belice, Peten) |
Euclides writes the elements of geometry |
200 |
Peak of El Mirador (Peten) First registered Mayan monument |
Han Dynasty in China, start of con- struction of the Great Chinese Wall, the distance between sun and moon is calculated Carthage falls to Rome |
100 |
Pre-Classic Maya till 300 A.D. |
Julius Cesar invades England 7 days week is established |
A.D. |
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100 |
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Titus dedicates Colosseum Roman Empire till 500 A.D. |
200 |
Teotihuacan till 700 A.D. |
Great Wall built in China |
300 |
Classic period till 700 A.D. |
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400 |
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Huns sweep from Asia into Europe |
500 |
Classic Maya (Tikal, Copan, Palenque, Chichen Itza) till 900 A.D. |
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600 |
Peak of Palenque, Yaxchilan, Bonampak, Uxmal and Tikal |
Fall of Roman Empire Hoel Shin arrives at Mayan territory from Catay/China |
700- 1500 |
Post Classic period |
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800 |
Toltec Empire (Tule) Florishing Mayan architecture Interruption of Mayan writing |
Charlemagne founds Holy Roman Empire Peak of Viking exploration |
900 |
Post Classic Maya Toltecs invade Maya land |
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1000 |
Peak of Post Classic Maya |
Vikings reach Newfoundland William the Conqueror invades England Thorfinn Karlsvene emigrates con 140 Vikings to Guatemala |
1100 |
Mixtecs (Monte Alban and Mitla) till 1500 A.D. |
Crusades till 1300 A.D. |
1200 |
Fall and abandon of Chichen Itza |
Gengis Khan conquors China Magna Carta |
1300 |
Foundation of Tenochtitlan by the Aztecs Tepanec and Aztec Empire till 1500 A.D: |
Beginning of Renaissance in Italy Abu-Kari arrives at the Caribbean Isles from Africa |
1400 |
Izamal is the center of religious power |
Jeanne d’Arc beats the Englishmen Fall of Constaninople |
1500 |
Columbus discovers America First encounter of Mayans and Spaniards 1519 Cortes arrives in Mexico (Cozumel) 1521 Conquest of Tenochtitlan 1542 Foundation of Merida |
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean 1519 Karl the Great is crowned 1582 Gregorian Calendar |
1600 |
Peak of Peten (Topoxte, Wall of León, Tayasal |
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1700 |
Conquest of Peñol de Tayasal, capital of Peten Itza |
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1847 |
War of Mayan Castes |
Switzerland transfoms into Federal state |