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Isla del Sol

2000 BCE – still standing

Sacred island on Lake Titicaca revered by the Inca as the birthplace of the sun, dotted with ruins of shrines and the sanctuary of the Sacred Rock.

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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)
  2. Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers and maize farmers (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Manioc farmers (1500 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1 BCE–500 CE)
  5. Tiahuanaco Empire (600 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Aymara kingdoms (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Aymara (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Bolivia (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

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700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 2026 CE.

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