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Landmark Americas archaeological

Pulemelei Mound

1100 BCE – still standing

Largest ancient structure in Polynesia, a star-shaped stone pyramid on Savai'i, Samoa, rising 12 meters high with a 65-meter base

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Pulemelei Mound 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–1500 BCE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 BCE–400 CE)
  3. Tuʻi Tonga Empire (500 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (700 CE–900 CE)
  5. Tuʻi Tonga Empire (1000 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Samoa (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. German Samoa (1900 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Western Samoa (1920 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Samoa (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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1200 BCE – 1521 CE

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Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

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1450 CE – still standing

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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 1100 BCE and 2026 CE.

900 BCE Chavín de Huántar 600 BCE Tikal 600 BCE San Agustín Archaeological Park 600 BCE Tierradentro 600 BCE Calakmul

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