Ancestral Puebloans

Ancestral Puebloans appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Southwest and Great Basin (North America) from c. 750 to 1300 CE, a span of 550 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Farmers of the Four Corners who built multi-storey pueblos and cliff dwellings such as Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde. The Great Drought of 1276 to 1299 drove them south to the Rio Grande and Hopi mesas.

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Facts

Dates

c. 750 to 1300 CE

Duration

550 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Southwest and Great Basin, North America

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Came from

• Basketmaker culture c. 1500 BCE to 750 CE

Became

• Pueblo peoples (Hopi, Zuni, Rio Grande) c. 1300 CE to the present

Events in North America during its time

• 985 Erik the Red settles Greenland
• 1000 Norse reach Vinland
• 1050 Cahokia grows into a city
• 1276 The Great Drought

Neighbours in North America

• Norse Greenland c. 985 to 1450 CE
• Vinland (L'Anse aux Meadows) c. 1000 to 1020 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Swahili city-states c. 800 to 1700 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE, Europe
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Srivijaya c. 650 to 1377 CE, Southeast Asia
• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America

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