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Landmark Americas archaeological

Kuelap

500 CE – 1570 CE · 1,070 years

Mountaintop fortress of the Chachapoyas 'Warriors of the Clouds' in northern Peru, with 20-meter walls enclosing over 400 stone buildings

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Kuélap on Wikipedia.

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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–400 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 CE–1200 CE)
  3. Andean states and chiefdoms (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Quechua (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Peru (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Chichen Itza

600 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

Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries

1200 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of New Spain

Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 1570 CE.

500 CE Uxmal 600 CE Chichen Itza 600 CE Mesa Verde 600 CE Cahokia Mounds 600 CE Joya de Cerén

And in the rest of the world

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

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