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Landmark Americas archaeological

Cahokia Mounds

600 CE – 1400 CE · 800 years

Pre-Columbian Mississippian city in Illinois, the largest archaeological site north of Mexico with massive earthen mounds

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–500 CE)
  2. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (600 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1500 CE)
  5. Illinois (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Luisiana (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Tak’alik Ab’aj

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Attested 323 BCE – 700 CE

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700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

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1200 CE – 1600 CE

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San Agustín Archaeological Park

600 BCE – 1350 CE

Polity · Americas

Tiahuanaco Empire

Attested 600 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Americas

Voyage to Hawai'i

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 CE and 1400 CE.

600 CE Chichen Itza 600 CE Mesa Verde 600 CE Joya de Cerén 750 CE Sicán 800 CE Mississippian Warfare

And in the rest of the world

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