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Landmark religious World Heritage

Mogao Caves

366 CE – still standing

UNESCO complex of 492 Buddhist cave temples near Dunhuang containing a thousand years of murals and sculptures along the ancient Silk Road

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Mogao Caves 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–300 CE)
  2. Northern Liang (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 CE–600 CE)
  4. Karluks (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Tibetan Empire (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Tibet (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Xixia (1000 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Great Khanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Ming Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Chagatai Khanate (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE)
  12. central Asian khanates (1600 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Qing Empire (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Not stated
  14. Manchu Empire (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Republic of China (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Chinese Warlords (1920 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Republic of China (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. China (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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Landmark

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

1389 CE – still standing

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Figure · Arabian Peninsula

Muhammad

570 CE – 632 CE

Conflict

Mongol Conquests

1206 CE – 1368 CE

Landmark

Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand)

500 BCE – 1220 CE

Polity

Srivijaya Empire

650 CE – 1400 CE

Trade route

Manila Galleon Return Route

1565 CE – 1815 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 366 CE and 2026 CE.

552 CE Göktürk Khaganate Wars 600 CE Srivijaya Maritime Wars 751 CE Battle of Talas 1180 CE Nan Madol 1206 CE Mongol Conquests

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 Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE
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