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The 12th century in North American history provides a time line of events occurring within the present political boundaries of United States (including territories) from 1101 through 1200 in the Gregorian Calendar . Although this time line segment may include some European or other world events that profoundly influenced later American life, it focuses on developments within Native American (and Polynesian) communities. Because the indigenous peoples of these regions lacked a written language, we must glean events from the admittedly very incomplete Archaeological record and place them in time through Radiocarbon Dating techniques.



  • Natives of the American Southwest began evacuating their above-ground Pueblo s to build spectacular Cliff Dwelling s housing hundreds of people in the later half of the century.


  • The Native American population of North America probably peaked near the end of the 12th century.