Comparative Chronology

Fecha: 24 enero 2022

 

B.C.

AMERICA

OLD WORLD

6500

First Agriculture

Farming well under way in Asia and the Near East

5000

Cultivation of maize

 

3500

Seasonal villages

 

3000

 

Egyptian First Dynasty

 

 

First walled cities in Sumer

2500

Pottery appears

Egyptians construct Cheops Pyramid

 

 

Rise of cities of Indus valley

2000

First permanent villages

Shang Dynasty in China

1700

Pre classic period till 300 A.D.

1500

 

 

1200

Olmec civilization (San Lorenzo, La Venta, Tres Zapotes) till 400 B.C.

Trojan War, Phoenicians develop alphabet

1100

 

Chow Dynasty in China

1000

Iniciation of Mayan Mathematics

Arabs introduce the decimal system Carthage founded by Phoenicians

800

 

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey

700

 

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.

 

 

100

 

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.

400

 

Huns sweep from Asia into Europe

 

500

Classic Maya (Tikal, Copan, Palenque,

Chichen Itza) till 900 A.D.

 

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

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

 

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

 

1700

Conquest of Peñol de Tayasal, capital of

Peten Itza

 

1847

War of Mayan Castes

Switzerland transfoms into Federal state