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Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Landmark Americas archaeological

Nazca Lines

500 BCE – still standing

Mysterious ancient geoglyphs etched into the Peruvian desert

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Nazca lines 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–700 BCE)
  2. Manioc farmers (500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Paracas (400 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Nazca (100 BCE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Huari Empire (600 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Andean states and chiefdoms (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Quechua (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Peru (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 2026 CE.

500 BCE Monte Albán 300 BCE Great Serpent Mound 250 BCE Maya City-State Wars 200 BCE Teotihuacan 200 BCE Tiwanaku

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Nazca lines Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • 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