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Landmark Americas archaeological

Joya de Cerén

600 CE – 660 CE · 60 years

Pre-Columbian farming village in El Salvador buried by volcanic ash around 660 AD, the 'Pompeii of the Americas' preserving daily Maya life

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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–500 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (600 CE–1400 CE)
  3. Nahua (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1500 CE)
  5. New Spain (1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. El Salvador (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Xochicalco

650 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Maya chiefdoms and states

2000 BCE – 1521 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Caracol–Naranjo Wars

626 CE – 800 CE

Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Monte Albán

Attested 323 BCE – 700 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 CE and 660 CE.

600 CE Chichen Itza 600 CE Mesa Verde 600 CE Cahokia Mounds 600 CE Srivijaya Maritime Wars 600 CE Ellora Caves

And in the rest of the world

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

Potala Palace Landmark · South Asia 637 CE – still standing Srivijaya Empire Polity 650 CE – 1400 CE Chinese Grand Canal Trade route · East Asia 600 CE Goguryeo–Sui Wars Conflict · East Asia 598 CE – 614 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Roman Forum Landmark · Europe 500 BCE – 608 CE
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