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This timeline is based loosely around a few timelines found on the internet, namely:

http://www.oneworldjourneys.com/jaguar/mayan_timeline.html
http://www.mayan-traveler.com/timeline.htm

Created by bj on Aug 13, 2007

Last updated: 03/11/10 at 11:18 PM

Tags: cat_culture

• Tikal is abandoned
  898

• Teotihuacan destroyed
  599

  An unknown event destroys the civilization at Teotihuacan, along with the empire it supported. Tikal becomes the largest city-state in Mesoamerica, with as many as 500,000 inhabitants within the city and its hinterland.

• Maya culture begins to disintegrate
  399

  The Maya highlands fall under the domination of Teotihuacan, and the disintegration of Maya culture and language begins in some parts of the highlands.

• The decline of the Olmecs
  99

• City of Teotihuacan is founded
  Nov 30, 1599

  The city of Teotihuacan is founded and for centuries is the cultural, religious and trading center of Mesoamerica.

• Writing is developed in Mesoamerica
  Nov 30, 1599

• Copan settled
  Nov 30, 1599

  Earliest traces of settlement at Copan in Honduras. Copan was an important Maya city that reached it's Zenith later in the later Classic Period

• Maya Civilization Begins
  Nov 30, 1599

• Creation of the (Mayan) World
  Nov 30, 1599

  The creation of the world takes place, according to the Maya Long Count calendar.

• First hunter-gatherers settle
  Nov 30, 1599

  The first hunter-gatherers settle in the Maya highlands and lowlands.