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Landmark Americas archaeological

Chaco Canyon

850 CE – 1250 CE · 400 years

Ancestral Puebloan ceremonial center in New Mexico with massive great houses and precisely aligned astronomical features

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Wikipedia.

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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–800 CE)
  2. Anasazi (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–1400 CE)
  4. Diné Bikéyah (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Navajo (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Navaho (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1650 CE–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
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Americas

Tak’alik Ab’aj

800 BCE – 900 CE

Polity · Americas

Tiahuanaco Empire

Attested 600 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Americas

Voyage to Aotearoa (New Zealand)

1100 CE – 1400 CE

Conflict · Americas

Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries

1200 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Americas

Tierradentro

600 BCE – 900 CE

Polity · Americas

Huari Empire

600 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 850 CE and 1250 CE.

850 CE Chan Chan 850 CE Quilmes Ruins 850 CE Ciudadela of Chan Chan 900 CE Toltec Wars 950 CE Tongan Empire Expansion

And in the rest of the world

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

Volubilis Landmark · Africa 300 BCE – 1200 CE Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Varangian Trade Route Trade route · Europe 800 CE – 1100 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars Conflict · Europe 629 CE – 1180 CE Al-Khwarizmi Figure · Baghdad 780 CE – 850 CE Gyeongju Historic Areas Landmark · East Asia 57 BCE – 935 CE
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