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Landmark Americas archaeological

Caral

3000 BCE – 1800 BCE · 1,200 years

Oldest known city in the Americas, a 5,000-year-old ceremonial complex in Peru's Supe Valley predating the pyramids

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Norte Chico (3000 BCE–2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. El Paraiso (1500 BCE–500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Manioc farmers (400 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Moche (1 BCE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (600 CE–700 CE)
  6. Huari Empire (800 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Chimú Empire (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Quechua (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Peru (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Isla del Sol

2000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Maya chiefdoms and states

2000 BCE – 1521 CE

Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Norte Chico

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Arctic marine mammal hunters

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

Landmark · Americas

Hawaii Volcanoes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Valdivia

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 1800 BCE.

3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing city-states Polity · Europe 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Sphinx of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2500 BCE – still standing
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