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Parallelepiped09 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Landmark Americas trade

Potosí

1545 CE – 1800 CE · 255 years

Site of the Cerro Rico silver mines that produced most of the Spanish Empire's wealth, once one of the largest cities in the world

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Potosí on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

Before it was built (3000 BCE–1530 CE)
No border recorded here in this snapshot (1600 CE–1700 CE)
Amazon hunter-gatherers (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
Vice-Royalty of Peru (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
Bolivia (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined

Border precision

Defined

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

Kuelap

500 CE – 1570 CE

Polity · Americas

United States

Founded 1784 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Trade route · Americas

Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)

1400 CE – 1572 CE

Landmark · Americas

Ciudad Perdida

800 CE – 1600 CE

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of Peru

Attested 1650 CE – 1815 CE

Conflict · Americas

Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries

1200 CE – 1600 CE

Trade route · Americas

Spanish Treasure Fleet Return

1566 CE – 1790 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1545 CE and 1800 CE.

1549 CE Salvador da Bahia 1550 CE Arauco War 1565 CE Acapulco 1586 CE Church of San Francisco 1587 CE Church of São Francisco

And in the rest of the world

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

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Venice–Constantinople Route Trade route · Europe 800 CE – 1600 CE Michelangelo Figure · Florence & Rome 1475 CE – 1564 CE Hampi Landmark · South Asia 1336 CE – 1565 CE

Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons

Potosí Parallelepiped09 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kuélap Martin St-Amant ( S23678 ) · CC BY 3.0
Flag of the United States (DDD-F-416E specifications) Vector file created by Dbenbenn, Zscout370, Jacobolus, Indolences, and Technion. · Public domain
Ciudad Perdida Giancarlos1234 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Map of the Viceroyalty of Peru (+claimed Patagonian and Amazonic territories) (cropped) Milenioscuro Derivative work: Janitoalevic · CC BY-SA 3.0