Mesoamerica

historical region and cultural area in southern North America and most of Central America

10 dated entries naming Mesoamerica, drawn from 9 separate years between 1800 BCE and 1521 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century BC

15th century BC

  • 1500 BCEc. 1500 BC — Formative/Preclassic period starts in Mesoamerica.source

12th century BC

  • 1200 BCEc. 1200 BC: Olmec culture starts and thrives in Mesoamerica.source

5th century BC

  • 500 BCEThe Olmec established Monte Albán, the sacred city, and continued building pyramids. Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BCE, by the Terminal Formative (ca.100 BCE–CE 200) Monte Albán soon became the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacts with other Mesoamerican regional states, such as Teotihuacan to the north (Paddock 1983; Marcus 1983).source
  • 500 BCEThe world population reaches 100,000,000—85,000,000 in the Eastern Hemisphere and 15,000,000 in the Western Hemisphere, primarily Mesoamerica and northern South America (Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela).source

4th century BC

  • 400 BCEThe Olmec culture in Mesoamerica comes to an end as its city of La Venta is abandoned (approximate date).source

2nd century

  • 156The La Mojarra Stela 1 is produced in Mesoamerica.source

3rd century

  • 300The Formative/Preclassic period in Mesoamerica comes to an end approximately around this year.source

8th century

  • 800Itza culture starts in Mesoamerica (840).source

16th century

  • 1521August 13 – Fall of Tenochtitlan: Cuauhtémoc surrenders to Cortés, thus incorporating the Aztec Empire into the Spanish Empire and ending the Late Postclassic period in Mesoamerica.source

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