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Landmark Americas archaeological

Ingapirca

1400 CE – 1533 CE · 133 years

Ecuador's most important Inca site, a fortress-temple complex built atop an earlier Cañari settlement in the Andes

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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–1300 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1400 CE)
  3. Kichwa (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Vice-Royalty of New Granada (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Ecuador (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Mississippian Chiefdom Wars

800 CE – 1500 CE

Landmark · Americas

Cahokia Mounds

600 CE – 1400 CE

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of New Spain

Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Americas

Voyage to Aotearoa (New Zealand)

1100 CE – 1400 CE

Conflict · Americas

Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion

1428 CE – 1521 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1400 CE and 1533 CE.

1400 CE Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau 1400 CE Ollantaytambo 1428 CE Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion 1438 CE Inca Empire Expansion 1438 CE Qorikancha

And in the rest of the world

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