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Moundville

1000 CE – 1450 CE · 450 years

Mississippian ceremonial center in Alabama with 29 platform mounds arranged around a sacred plaza, once among the largest settlements in North America.

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  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–900 CE)
  2. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (1000 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Mvskoke (Muscogee / Creek) (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Natchez (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Choctaw (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1650 CE–1715 CE)
  7. United States of America (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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600 CE – 1200 CE

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700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

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600 CE – 1000 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1000 CE and 1450 CE.

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