6500 BC

Events in 6500 BC 2

• 6500 BC Maize is domesticated Balsas valley, Mexico Teosinte, a wild grass with a few hard seeds, was bred over centuries into maize. Everything that followed in Mesoamerica — cities, calendars, kings — rested on it.
• 6500 BC – 2026 The Maya Four thousand years, and still here Four thousand years of Maya history, from the first maize farmers of the lowlands to the seven million Maya people alive today. Covers the great Preclassic cities, the Classic dynasties and their wars, the collapse that emptied the southern lowlands, the Spanish conquest and book burnings, the decipherment of the script, and the modern struggles in Guatemala and Chiapas. The Maya did not vanish.