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Landmark Americas archaeological

Newark Earthworks

100 BCE – 400 CE · 500 years

Largest earthen enclosures in the world, built by the Hopewell culture in Ohio, including a giant octagon aligned to track the moon's 18.6-year cycle.

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Newark Earthworks 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–200 BCE)
  2. Hopewell Culture (100 BCE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (600 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Kaskaskia (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1500 CE–1715 CE)
  6. United States of America (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Americas

Mitla

100 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Chorrera

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Teotihuacan Entrada into the Maya Lowlands

378 CE

Landmark · Americas

Huaca de la Luna

100 CE – 800 CE

Polity · Americas

Chavin

Attested 1000 BCE – 100 BCE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Landmark · Americas

Pachacamac

200 CE – 1533 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 100 BCE and 400 CE.

100 CE Mitla 100 CE Cobá 226 CE Palenque 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih) 100 BCE Dambulla Cave Temple 91 BCE Social War (Italian War)

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Persia Polity · Middle East 400 CE – 1914 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Three Kingdoms (China) Conflict · East Asia 220 CE – 280 CE Joshua ben Perachiah Figure · Jerusalem / Alexandria 140 BCE – 76 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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