A Timeline

2 million to
160,000 BC:        (The latter part of the Pleistocene Epoch. People are standing upright in the Oldevai Gorge in Tanzania in East Africa, gathering together in bands, scanning the grasslands for predators, making simple tools and weapons, hunting, gathering, cooking with fire, tanning hides, and raising children.)

125,000's BC:     (Some people start to move out of Africa.)

100,000's BC:      (Some people have made it as far as India and the Levant.)

50,000's BC:       Some people have made it as far as China, where they discover wild cannabis plants and learn how to make rope out of hemp, and then they travel on to Siberia.  Sea levels fall, making it possible to cross from Siberia to Alaska across the Bering Strait. The first wave of Siberian people, probably the ancestors of the Yenet or Yupik tribe, follows the herds of migratory animals to "Turtle Island" near Alaska. They may have probably brought with them their wild cannabis seeds for growing hemp with which to make their ropes, their style of houses (wickiups), their tools, their styles of clothing, and their dogs, including Siberian Husky-like dogs, Southeast Asian dingo-like dogs and tiny, nervous, brave, hairy or hairless "carrier" dogs who are carried around in pouches.
                           (People have made it as far as Indonesia and Australia.)
        
40,000's BC:     People have made it as far as Mexico and left their footprints in the muddy Valley of Mexico by the shores of Lake Texcoco. Shortly thereafter, people have made it as far as Columbia and Brazil in South America.

38,000's BC:     (People are painting the walls of their caves in Romania, France and Spain.)

35,000's BC:

30,000's BC:      (People are in the Czech Republic.)
                           (People are painting the walls of their caves in Indonesia.)

26,000's BC:      (People are doing charcoal sketches on the walls of their caves in Australia.)

25,000's BC:      (People are painting the walls of their caves in Namibia.)

23,000's BC:      People are lighting campfires in the Valley of Mexico.

20,000's BC:      (Wild grains like rye are cultivated in the Levant and Egypt, and so Agriculture begins.

17,000's BC:      Horses, which were native to South America, have migrated across the land bridge to Siberia by this time. 
                            (Earliest depictions of wrestling and sprinting on the caves at Lascaux, France.)

15,000's BC:     The Haidu tribe is established in Alaska. The Powhatan settle in Virginia.
                   
14,000's BC:

13,000's BC:     The pygmy mammoth goes extinct on the Channel Islands off the Californian coast.

12,000's BC:     People are spreading their way across Canada.
                          People arrive in Columbia at the northern part of South America.
                          (People are in Germany.)

11,700 BC:    The end of the last Ice Age and the Pleistocene Era. The land bridge between Siberia and Alaska disappears due to rising sea levels. The mastodon, the giant ground sloth, the American camel, the saber-toothed tiger, the giant armadillos and the short-nosed bear all go extinct, possibly due to a combination of climate change and because the "Clovis" people are busy making arrowheads in the southwest North America.
                        People arrive in Chile and Argentina.
                        The Chumash Tribe are in Southern California and the Channel Islands.
                          (People are planting crops of lentils, vetch, pistachios and almonds in Greece.)

10,000's BC:  Native people arrive in the Great Plains. The Kumeyaay are already living in Southern California.
                        The City of Tibito in Columbia is founded.
                        (People in the Middle East and Europe invent beer and wine.)
                        (People are planting crops of oats and wild barley in Greece.)

9,000's BC:    Last of the mastodon goes extinct. 
                       People move to the Sierra Madre Mountains in Northern Mexico.
                       People are now living in Peru and probably cultivating peanuts.
                       (People start planting wheat, barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas, flax and figs in the Levant.  The walled city of Jericho was built and people start to make beer with the barley.)
       
8,000's BC:   Establishment of a Yaguan Indian settlement at the southern-most tip of South  America.
                       The Inupiat are established in Alaska.
                       People start deliberately planting teocinte (wild corn) in Mexico. The beginning of agriculture in the Americas.
                       People are painting the walls of their caves in Argentina.
                       (People start planting wheat crops in Egypt and rice crops and millet crops in China.)
                       (People start living in permanent round or rectangular stone houses in the Levant.)

7,000's BC:    The Kumeyaay, the Chumash, the Tongva and the Patayan people of Southern California are actively trading together.
                        (People start working on the City of Catal Hoyuk in Anatolia.)
                        (People are planting wheat and barley crops near the Persian Gulf.)
                        (People are planting wheat and bean crops and planting orange orchards in India.)

6,000's BC:     Different kinds of corn is domesticated in Mexico, quickly followed by potatoes, tomatoes, peppers,, squash, and various kinds of beans in the Andes in South America. Tobacco plants are cultivated by the ancient people of Peru.
                         (People are engaged in archery and swimming as a sport in Libya.)
                         (People are deliberately cultivating cannabis crops in Siberia.)

5,000's BC      The "Ancient Pueblo" People enter the Southwest (modern Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.)
                         The Chantuto People live in the tropics of Central America.
                         People in the Ohio Valley are planting crops of squash, barley, amaranth, knotweed and maygrass.
                         (The Mesopotamians start building ziggurats in Iran.)
                         (People are planting sorghum and rice crops in Africa.)

4,000's BC       People have started to paint the walls of their caves in Tennessee.
                         People are planting corn in South America.
                         (The wheel is invented in Mesopotamia, the Caucasus Mountains and in Central Europe. The Sumerians invent cuneiform, a form of writing.)
                         (People are planting wheat, pea, sesame and barley crops and gate and mango groves in India.)

3,000's BC    Japanese fishermen may have boated around the Pacific Rim to settle in Ecuador.
                      Peruvians start domesticating potatoes.
                      (The rise of the Egyptian, the Nubian, the Sumerian and the Akkadian Empires.)
                      (Stonehenge goes up in England.)
                      (People are planting cotton and rice in India.)
                      (The Mesopotamians invent a form of writing.)
                      (According to some, the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age.)

2,000's BC   The first Iroquois settle in the Northeastern part of North America.
                      Mammoths go extinct in North America.
                      The Chantuto are supplanted by the Mokaya People in the tropics of Central America.
                      The first Shoshone arrive in Nevada.
                      The first Mayans cultivate crops in Belize.
                      The Miwok arrive in Northern California.
                      Cultivation of corn spreads across the Americas.
                      People in the Andes grow amaranth from which they get quinoa.
                      People in Mexico and South America are playing a particularly brutal ballgame.
                      (The rise of the Minoan civilization.)
                      (The rise of the Nigerian kingdom.)
                      (Pyramid of Djoser is built in Saqqara, Egypt in 2667 BC.)
                      (The Sphinx goes up in Egypt in 2500 BC.)
                      (People are planting cannabis crops in China.)

1,900's BC

1,800's BC     The Cherokee settle in the Great Lakes region.

1,700's BC     (The rise of the Chinese dynasties.)
                       The Olmecs, who are just coming into power, play a game like racquetball with a heavy rubber ball.

1,600's BC    The beginning of the Olmec Empire in Central America.
                      (The Rise of the Hittite Empire.) 
                       (The Thera Volcano in the Greek Islands explodes.)

1,500's BC    The Olmec Empire spreads to Mexico.
                      (The rise of the Phoenician Empire.)
                       
1,400's BC    

1,300's BC      (The Trojan War.)
                        (Moses may have led the Israelites out of Egypt.)

1,200's BC     The Tehuelche People arrive on the pampas in Argentina.
                       (The rise of the Japanese Kingdom.)
                       (The Chinese invent their style of writing.)
                       (The "Sea People" start endangering the other kingdoms of the Mediterranean.)
                       (According to some, the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age.)  

1,100's BC    (The rise of the Philistine Kingdom.)

1,000's BC     The Inuit in Alaska begin their slow migration to Greenland.
                       The Zapotec settle in Mexico. 
                       (King Solomon of Israel builds a temple in Jerusalem.)

900's BC       (The rise of the Greek Empire.)
                      (The "Sea People" disappear from history.)

800's BC       (The rise of the Ethiopian Empire.)

700's BC      The rise of the Mayan Empire in Central America.
                     The Olmec start building pyramids in Mexico.
                     Llamas are domesticated in Peru.

600's BC      The Olmecs invent their own style of writing.
                     (The rise of the Carthagians in North Africa.)

500's BC      (Sports enthusiasts are hurling in ancient Ireland, playing an early form of field hockey in Scotland, and an early form of rugby in Rome, football in China, and polo in Persia.)   
                     (The original travelogue-writer, Herodotus, is touring the Middle East.)
                     (The Phoenicians are exploring the African coast.

400's BC        The end of the Olmec Empire in Mexico.

300's BC        The beginning of the Mayan Empire in Central America. 
                        Somebody paints a picture of a Techichi, the ancestor of the Chihuahua, on the walls of a Toltec tomb. 
                       (The rise of the Roman Empire.)
                       (The Babylonians conquer Israel.)

200's BC

100's BC      The Nanih Waiya ("Beloved Mother") Cave Mound in Mississippi is built by the ancestral tribe of the Chickasaw and the Choctaw.
                     The Hohokam tribe is in Southern Arizona.
                     The City of Teotihuacan, the largest city in the Americas, is built in Mexico.
                     (Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the steps of the Roman Senate.)
                     (Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh and Queen of Egypt, commits suicide.)

1 BC/AD     (Jesus of Nazareth is preaching in Israel and Phoenicia.)
                    People start settling in Bolivia.

100's AD

200's AD

300's AD      The Mogollon culture is in Southern California, Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico. And the Rain Dance is invented.

400's AD      (The Fall of the Roman Empire.)

500's AD

600's AD      The early Mississippian culture build the mound-city of Cahokia in western Illinois. It is the largest city north of Mexico. 
                     (The Dark Ages begin in Europe.)
     
700's AD     The Nahuatl (the early Aztecs) people move into Mexico.

800's AD    The Cherokee leave the Great Lakes region and arrived in Georgia, Tennessee, Vermont, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina.

900's AD     The Anasazi are building cliff-houses in New Mexico.
                     The Toltec and the Mayans start mining for gold and silver in the Sierra Madre Mountains in Northern Mexico.

1000's AD    The slow decline of the Mayan Empire begins.
                     The Paiute arrive in the American Southwest.
                    
1100's AD   The Iroquois League is formed.
                    The Vikings meet the Inuit in Greenland.
                    The first Paiute arrive in California, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona and Utah.
                    The Hopi village of Oraibi in the Arizona desert is founded.
                    The Mojave arrive in the Arizonan/Californian desert.

1200's AD    The first Apaches arrive in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado.
                     The first Blackfoot leave Canada and arrive in Montana.
                     The Aztec are slowly rising to power in Mexico.
                     The Quapaw are pushed out of the Ohio Valley.
                     Cahokia is abandoned.
                     The Anasazi disappear.
                     The first Pawnee are in Nebraska.

1300's AD    The Kachina religion of the Hopi is established.
                     The Aztec Empire begins in earnest.
                     The Scalp Dance is invented.
                     (The Dark Ages end in Europe and some aspects of the Renaissance begin.)

1400's AD    The Incans rise to power in Peru.
                      The Bear Dance is invented.
                      (The Inquisition begins in Spain.)
                      (Christopher Columbus bumps into the Islands of the Caribbean and plants the flag for Spain. And so the begins the end of life as they know it for Native Americans.)

1500's AD   (The Spanish found the City of St. Augustine in Florida.)
                    The Miwoks migrate to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
                    The Yuroks are in Northern California.
                    (The Spanish settle in the Dominican Republic.)
                    The Spanish conquistadores conquer the Aztec and the Mayan Empires in Mexico.
                    (Sir Francis Drake of England arrives in San Francisco, two hundred years before the Spanish claim California as their own.)
                    The Chickasaw leave the West and move east to Mississippi, Kentucky and other Southern states.

1600's AD   The first Kiowa arrive in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
                    The Pueblo Indians band together to rebel against the Spanish missionaries.
                    The Spanish conquistadores conquer the failing Mayan Empire in Central America.
                    (Jamestown, which is on Powhatan land, is founded by the British in Virginia.)
                    (The French arrive in Quebec and the Germans arrive in Pennsylvania.)
                    (The Mayflower lands on Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, carrying more English.)
                    The Pow Wow or Gathering of Nations begins, probably to help rally tribes against the worrisome Europeans and their strange customs.
                    The Shawnee leave Delaware and start wandering around the eastern part of the Colonies.
                    The Nakota break away from the Lakota and move to Canada.

1700's AD    The first Seminole tribes are formed out of the refugees from other tribes and escaped slaves brought over from Africa to work on the plantations.
                     The Spanish missionaries enslave thousands of Native Americans in California.
                     (The American Colonists win their freedom from the very weary British.)
                     (Thomas Jefferson expands the Colonies to parts of the Midwest, thus claiming more land occupied by Native Americans.)
                     (The end of the Renaissance in Europe and the beginning of the Industrial Age.)

1800's AD    The appearance of a comet in 1811, immediately followed by the New Madrid Earthquake, rattles nerves from the Midwest to the East Coast and is seen by the Native Americans as proof that the white man has got to go. The white man has, I am sure, another interpretation, probably anti-Native American. 
                      The Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole tribes, the "Five Civilized Tribes," are forced to sell their land in the 1830's to make way for cotton fields in the South, and are resettled on reservations in Oklahoma. Other tribes are relegated to "Indian Territory."  
                     (The United States expands to include "Indian Territory," parts of the Southwest and California.  Immediately thereafter, in 1849, gold is discovered in California.)
                    (The Civil War results in the destruction of the South and the end of slavery.)
                     The  Ghost Dance is invented by Wovoka, a Paiute, in 1890, and it is immediately banned as subversive.

1900's AD    More "Indian Land" is considered part of the United States.
                     The Fancy Dance is invented.
                     (Hawaii and Alaska become part of the United States.)
                     (Several wars, both large and small, break out.)
             
2000's AD