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Aztec calendar (sunstone) Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE); as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and ...
Most of the cultures of the Late Horizon and some of the cultures of the Late Intermediate joined the Inca Empire by 1493, but the period ends in 1532 because that marks the fall of the Inca Empire after the Spanish conquest. Most of the cut-off years mark either an end of a severe drought or the beginning of one.
Sapa Inca Years Order Sapa Inca Years I Manco Capac: 1240-1260 VII Yawar Waqaq: 1360-1380 II Sinchi Roca: 1260-1280 VIII Viracocha Inca: 1380-1400 III Lloque Yupanqui: 1280-1300 IX Pachacuti: 1400-1440 IV Mayta Capac: 1300-1320 X Tupac Yupanqui: 1440-1480 V Capac Yupanqui: 1320-1340 XI Huayna Capac: 1480-1523 VI Inca Roca: 1340-1360 XII Inti ...
Human sacrifice was a religious practice principally characteristic of pre-Columbian Aztec civilization, although other Mesoamerican civilizations like the Maya and the Zapotec practiced it as well. The extent of the practice is debated by modern scholars.
Paleo-Indian (10,000–3500 BCE) Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, obsidian and pyrite points, Iztapan Archaic (3500–1800 BCE) Agricultural settlements, Tehuacán Preclassic (Formative)
1492: Christopher Columbus sails in search of a new route to India and lands in the Caribbean, leading to the first European contact in the Americas since the Norse colonization of North America 500 years earlier. 1497: Italian navigator John Cabot sails from England to Newfoundland.
Year Date Event 1520: 20 May: Massacre in the Great Temple: Spanish soldiers killed a group of Aztec nobles in the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan during the celebration of Toxcatl. 29 June: Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire: Moctezuma II, the tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance, was killed. 30 June
The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mēxihcah (pronounced [meˈʃikaʔ]).. The capital of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan.