Maya Preclassic period
2,000 BCE–250* · Event
Early Maya city-states emerge in Petén; first monumental architecture; long-count calendar.
On these timelines: Pre-Columbian Americas, Latin America, Master
More from Pre-Columbian Americas
- Peopling of the Americas (14000 BCE)
- Maya civilisation (2000 BCE)
- Maize domesticated in Mesoamerica (7000 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Teotihuacán at its peak (100)
- Inca expansion under Pachacuti (1438)
- Classic Maya civilization (250)
- Aztec Triple Alliance formed (1428)
Around 2000 BCE
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Abraham (1813 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE)
- Minoan civilisation flourishes on Crete (2000 BCE)
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation ends (1900 BCE)
- Hammurabi (1810 BCE)
- Third Dynasty of Ur (2112 BCE)
- Erlitou culture (1900 BCE)
- Code of Ur-Nammu compiled (2100 BCE)