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7000 BCE - 2000 BCEThe Archaic Period in Mesoamerica during which hunter-gatherer culture moved toward agriculture.
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c. 2600 BCEMayan Culture buries their dead individually under homes.
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1200 BCE - 300 BCEThe Olmec Period which saw the rise of the Olmec culture's work in stone, first major cities appear.
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c. 700 BCETomb of Mayan King K'utz Chman of Retalhuleu constructed in Guatemala.
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600 BCE - 800 CEThe Zapotec Period in which writing, mathematics, and astronomy were disseminated. Calendar developed.
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331 BCETraditional founding date of Maya Copán.
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200 CE - 900 CEThe Teotihuacan Period in which the city of Teotihuacan dominates as an important religious and cultural center.
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250 CE - 900 CEThe El Tajin Period, so named for the great city of El Tajin. Urban centers proliferate and the game of Pok-a-Tok is developed.
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250 CE - 950 CEThe Classic Maya Period which saw the height of the Maya Civilization in cities such as Chichen Itza, Palenque, Tikal, Copan and Uxmal.
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320 CETraditional Maya founding date of Yaxchilan.
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331 CETraditional founding date of Maya Copan.
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378 CEFirst contact between Teotihuacan and Tikal.
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426 CE - 437 CEReign of the first named Copan ruler K'inich Yax K'uk Mo.
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c. 580 CE - c. 800 CEMaya Yaxchilan flourishes.
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615 CE - 683 CEReign of Kinich Janaab Pacal I or Pakal the Great, king of Maya Palenque.
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682 CE - 734 CEReign of Jasaw Chan K'awiil at Tikal.
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c. 700 CEThe Maya city and temple complex of Chacchoben is built.
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c. 750 CE - c. 1200 CEChichen Itza flourishes in Yucatan, Mexico.
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c. 800 CEThe Maya city of Palenque is abandoned.
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850 CE - 925 CEUxmal establishes itself as the capital of the Puuc region of Yucatan.
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c. 900 CEMaya Tikal is definitively abandoned.
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950 CE - 1524 CEThe Post-Classic Period in which the cities were abandoned and the region was invaded by the Spanish conquerors.
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Jul 1524 CEThe Battle of Utatlan in which the last Maya resistance is crushed by the conquistador Pedro de Alvarado. Traditional date of the end of the Maya Civilization.
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12 Jul 1562 CEDiego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatan, burns the books and images of the Maya outside the church at Mani.
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1840 CEThe Maya civilization is discovered by John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood who explore and document the ruins.