Before 1492

Antes de 1492

15000 BC–1492. For thousands of years Iberia and the Americas had separate histories.

What happened

For thousands of years Iberia and the Americas had separate histories. In Iberia, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths and the Muslims of al-Andalus each left their mark, and Latin slowly became the Romance languages, Castilian among them. Across the Atlantic, peoples such as the Maya, the Mexica and the Inca built cities, states and calendars of their own. These are the two pasts that 1492 brought together.

Within it

• Before Rome (c. 15th millennium BC–218 BC)
• Mesoamerica before 1492 (c. 1500 BC–1492)
• The Andes before 1492 (c. 900 BC–1492)
• Roman Hispania (218 BC–409)
• The Visigothic kingdom (415–711)
• Al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms (711–1492)
• The Caribbean before 1492 (c. 1200–1492)

Its events

1. between 200 and 1000: Tiwanaku on Lake Titicaca