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Landmark East Asia archaeological World Heritage

Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary

400 CE – 1400 CE · 1,000 years

Cluster of Hindu temple ruins built by the Champa Kingdom in a jungle valley in central Vietnam

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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. No border recorded here in this snapshot (400 CE)
  3. Champa (500 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Champa City States (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Champa (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Đại Việt (1492 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Annam (1815 CE–1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. French Indochina (1900 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Annam (1920 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. French Indo-China (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Annam (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Vietnam (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

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Goguryeo–Sui Wars

598 CE – 614 CE

Polity · East Asia

Xiongnu

400 BCE – 500 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Longmen Grottoes

493 CE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Tea Horse Road

700 CE – 1950 CE

Conflict · East Asia

An Lushan Rebellion

755 CE – 763 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 CE and 1400 CE.

493 CE Longmen Grottoes 495 CE Shaolin Temple 528 CE Bulguksa Temple 552 CE Göktürk Wars 589 CE Hangzhou

And in the rest of the world

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