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Mitla

100 CE – still standing

Zapotec and Mixtec religious center in Oaxaca famed for its intricate geometric stone mosaics and tombs of high priests.

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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–1 BCE)
  2. Monte Albán (100 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Mesoamerican city-states and chiefdoms (800 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Zapotec Empire (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Ben 'Zaa/Binnizá/Mén Diiste/Bene Xhon (Zapoteco) (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Mixtec Empire (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. New Spain (1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Mexico (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Mitla Uploaded into English Wikipedia by en:User:Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 2.0
  • Chichen Itza Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
  • Machu Picchu Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain