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CENTRAL SOUTHWEST

NORTHEAST

SOUTHEAST

1200BC  

OLMEC

San Lorenzo,

                       
1000BC La Venta(800-400BC)                 MISSISSIPPIAN CULTURE: Gr.Lakes to Gulf of Mexico Technology: funeral mounds, dawb-watttle  

100BC

Veracruz

MAYA

to 800AD:

Yucatan

Copan, Honduras

Uaxaotum, Guatemala

Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Tikal, Guatemala

Technology: pyramids, 60+ cities

   

0
  MOLLOGON agriculture, pithouses, pottery HOHOKAM irrigation, agriculture, pithouses, pottery
200
    

 

 

        Early Anaszi        

603

 

PALENQUE (city)
Pakal 70yrs.

TAHINO;
Caribean Arawak

   

Moundville-Alabama, Spiro-Okl.

   

   

Technology: Serpent Mound-E. Cinncinnati, Ohio, Monk's Mound-E. St. Louis, Ill.

 

650

   

Nahuatl, Valley of Mexico Teotihuacan -90yrs., "Home of the Gods"

     

750

 

Sons of Pakal, max. pop. 200,000

   

Cahokia to 1300:

Ohio Valley

800

Farming; corn, northeastern strain widespread

 

               

                             
900            

ANASAZI:

Chaco Canyon, Albeqerqy, NM
Technology: qivas / pithouses / great houses / irrigation
Resources: tourqouis
Religion: ritualized canibalism

1000   TOLTEC: Tolan, C. Mex. Colhuacan, near Teohuacan      
1050   Tula, Valley of Mexico
MESHIKA:
W. Coast of Mexico
Political: wandering
      CAHOKIA: reaches maximum population of 20,000

1100

 

   

Pueblo Bonito

Technology: plaza/multi-level apartment

1150

 

   

Cliff Palace

Mesa Verde Technology: world's largest multi-level apartment

 

 

1300

 

VALLEY OF MEXICO Political: settled / exiled / settled Trade: mercenary / trade

   

1325

 

MESHIKA / AZTEC: Lake Titicaca Technology: Tenochtitlan, man-made island

   

NATCHI NATION; Eastern Louisianna Leader(s): Quigaltom

1519

 

AZTEC:Mexico Political: Trade: Technology: Leader(s): Motecuzoma, Quiglouac Events: Resources:

  Point of Pines

1670

 

   

FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES: Echota, Knoxville TN Seminoles, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek
Political: Grand Council

HAUDANAUSHAUNE: Iroqouise Nation New York State Seneca (Cornplanter), Mohawk, Oneida, Onandaga, Cayuga
Political: Democratic Technology: Longhouse Leader(s): Tenscwatawe, Tecumthe ("The Shawnee Prophet"); Cornplanter Events: Prophet's Town War (1812)

1700

 

   

1763

 

   

Pontiac Aliance; Seneca, Miami, Lenape, Huron, Shawnee

1777

 

   

1808

 

   

New Echota-Georgia

1811

 

   

1821

 

   

Seqoia

1836

Removal (Trail of Tears); to Oklahoma

   

 

   

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