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Landmark Americas religious

Huaca de la Luna

100 CE – 800 CE · 700 years

Moche adobe pyramid near Trujillo, Peru, covered in polychrome friezes of the fanged god Ai Apaec and site of ritual sacrifices.

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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–1 BCE)
  2. Moche (100 CE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (600 CE–700 CE)
  4. Huari Empire (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Chimú Empire (1000 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Wari (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Peru (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

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200 BCE – 500 CE

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Mesa Verde

600 CE – still standing

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Tiahuanaco Empire

Attested 600 CE – 1200 CE

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700 CE – 1300 CE

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Tikal–Calakmul Superpower Wars

537 CE – 743 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 100 CE and 800 CE.

100 CE Mitla 100 CE Cobá 226 CE Palenque 500 CE Uxmal 500 CE Kuelap 600 CE Chichen Itza

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