Timeline by Juliette Delagrange

Chaco (800 CE-1200 CE)

jdelagra45 — 2025-09-24 19:35:28 UTC

The people of the Chacoan Empire built large buildings with astronomical alignments. They developed complex farming systems. Some other developments they made were the art and pottery. They showed and maintained power through the large structures they made.

Mesa Verde (1190 CE – 1300 CE)

ldow75 — 2025-09-24 19:35:45 UTC

The Mesa Verde built homes and rooms in cliffs. They were incredibly resourceful due to the environment in which they lived. They made complex works of art, which included pottery. They maintained power by using their location on the cliffs as defensive forts.

Aztec (1325 CE – 1521 CE)

ldow75 — 2025-09-24 19:35:53 UTC

The Aztec empire brought together dozens of different Mesoamerican people. Their shared cultural practices were Polytheistic religion (many gods), human sacrifice in religious ceremonies, advanced farming (floating gardens called chinampas), complex calendar systems, impressive architecture and art, and an organized society with nobles, commoners, and slaves.

Maya (1500 BCE –1539 CE)

ldow75 — 2025-09-24 19:36:00 UTC

Maya culture was a sophisticated, interdependent system of individual city-states, characterized by monumental architecture and advanced writing (hieroglyphs). They also had advanced mathematics and precise astronomical systems. Their government maintained order due to different methods of control. For example, Priests controlled calendars, ceremonies, and "divine will", warfare between city-states was constant, captured enemies became slaves or sacrifices, sophisticated record-keeping, and trade route control.

Inca (1230 CE to 1533 CE)

ldow75 — 2025-09-24 19:36:09 UTC

The Inca was a large empire, so they were divided into 4 corners. They used labor instead of money; they built a lot of infrastructure. Some cultural advancements were the Quipu, the knotted string record system. They maintained power by many things, one of which was the road system they created that spread throughout hard-to-travel terrain.

Cahokia (700 CE-1500 CE)

ldow75 — 2025-09-24 19:36:34 UTC

Cahokia was a diverse Native American metropolis (1050-1200 CE) that brought together multiple Mississippian cultures near present-day St. Louis. These different groups blended their traditions. The government maintained power by controlling the redistribution of goods from trade networks that stretched across North America, ensuring different social classes, which kept this organized.