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Landmark East Asia wonder World Heritage

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Ancient fortification spanning thousands of miles across northern China

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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–1000 BCE)
  2. Sinic (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 BCE)
  4. Proto-Thai cultures (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Zhou states (323 BCE–300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Han Empire (200 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Han (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Jin (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Sixteen Kingdoms (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Toba Wei (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Sui Empire (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Tang Empire (700 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Liao (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Jin Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Great Khanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Ming Empire (1400 CE–1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Ming Chinese Empire (1500 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Manchu Empire (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Qing Empire (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Not stated
  20. Manchu Empire (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. Republic of China (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. Chinese Warlords (1920 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  23. Republic of China (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. China (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate
  • Not stated

Elsewhere in East Asia 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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Polity · East Asia

China

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Gyeongju Historic Areas

57 BCE – 935 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)

1467 CE – 1615 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary

400 CE – 1400 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Warring States Period

475 BCE – 221 BCE

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 700 BCE and 2026 CE.

500 BCE Plain of Jars 478 BCE Temple of Confucius, Qufu 475 BCE Warring States Period 400 BCE Yoshinogari 350 BCE Xianyang Palace

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
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