Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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The Norse North Atlantic
790
SCANDINAVIA ON THE EVE OF THE VIKING AGE
866
RAIDERS BECOME SETTLERS: YORK, DUBLIN AND THE ISLES
886
THE DANELAW; ICELAND BEING SETTLED
930
THE ALTHING; NORMANDY GRANTED; YORK ENGLISH AGAIN
985–86
GREENLAND SETTLED
1021
VINLAND: WOOD FELLED AT L’ANSE AUX MEADOWS
1050
VINLAND ABANDONED
1250
GREENLAND AT ITS HEIGHT; THE THULE INUIT ARRIVE
1300
THE COLD ARRIVES; THE INUIT REACH DISKO BAY
1360
THE WESTERN SETTLEMENT FOUND EMPTY
1408
THE LAST WEDDING AT HVALSEY
1450
THE EASTERN SETTLEMENT FALLS SILENT
1500
INUIT GREENLAND; ORKNEY AND SHETLAND TO SCOTLAND
The Basin of Mexico
1150
THE BASIN BEFORE THE MEXICA, AFTER TULA’S FALL
1325
TENOCHTITLAN FOUNDED ON AN ISLAND OF THE LAKE
1428
THE TEPANEC WAR AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
1449
NEZAHUALCOYOTL’S DIKE: THE LAGOON TURNS FRESH
1469
MOCTEZUMA I’S EMPIRE REACHES THE GULF COAST
1481
AXAYACATL TAKES TLATELOLCO AND THE TOLUCA VALLEY
1499
AHUITZOTL’S CONQUESTS — AND THE FLOOD
1515
THE EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT UNDER MOCTEZUMA II
November 1519
THE CITY THE SPANIARDS SAW
1520
THE NOCHE TRISTE, SMALLPOX AND TEPEACAC LOST
May–August 1521
THE SIEGE OF TENOCHTITLAN
Mesoamerica
1150
THE BASIN BEFORE THE MEXICA, AFTER TULA’S FALL
1325
TENOCHTITLAN FOUNDED ON AN ISLAND OF THE LAKE
1428
THE TEPANEC WAR AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
1449
NEZAHUALCOYOTL’S DIKE: THE LAGOON TURNS FRESH
1469
MOCTEZUMA I’S EMPIRE REACHES THE GULF COAST
1481
AXAYACATL TAKES TLATELOLCO AND THE TOLUCA VALLEY
1499
AHUITZOTL’S CONQUESTS — AND THE FLOOD
1515
THE EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT UNDER MOCTEZUMA II
November 1519
THE CITY THE SPANIARDS SAW
1520
THE NOCHE TRISTE, SMALLPOX AND TEPEACAC LOST
May–August 1521
THE SIEGE OF TENOCHTITLAN
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