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Landmark Americas archaeological

Crystal River Mounds

500 BCE – still standing

A six-mound Native American ceremonial complex in Florida occupied continuously for over 1,600 years, from around 500 BC through the early colonial period.

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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–700 BCE)
  2. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (500 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE–400 CE)
  4. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (500 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Seminole (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Calusa (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Timucua (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Florida (1650 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Florida (Spain) (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. United States of America (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. 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

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 2026 CE.

500 BCE Nazca Lines 500 BCE Monte Albán 300 BCE Great Serpent Mound 250 BCE Maya City-State Wars 200 BCE Teotihuacan 200 BCE Tiwanaku

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
Image credits 4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Chichen Itza Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
  • Machu Picchu Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain