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Landmark East Asia religious World Heritage

Longmen Grottoes

493 CE – still standing

Over 2,300 limestone caves with 110,000 Buddhist statues near Luoyang, a masterwork of Chinese stone carving spanning four centuries

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Longmen Grottoes 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. Toba Wei (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Sui Empire (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Tang Empire (700 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Song Empire (1000 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Great Khanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Ming Empire (1400 CE–1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Ming Chinese Empire (1500 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Manchu Empire (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Qing Empire (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Not stated
  11. Manchu Empire (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Republic of China (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Chinese Warlords (1920 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Republic of China (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. China (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate
  • Not stated

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Polity · East Asia

China

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Gyeongju Historic Areas

57 BCE – 935 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)

1467 CE – 1615 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary

400 CE – 1400 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Goguryeo–Sui Wars

598 CE – 614 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 493 CE and 2026 CE.

495 CE Shaolin Temple 528 CE Bulguksa Temple 552 CE Göktürk Wars 589 CE Hangzhou 598 CE Goguryeo–Sui Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing
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