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Landmark East Asia archaeological

Rai Stones of Yap

1400 CE – still standing

Large circular limestone discs quarried in Palau and used as ceremonial currency on Yap Island, Micronesia, where ownership was determined by oral tradition rather than physical possession.

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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–1300 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1400 CE–1930 CE)
  3. Empire of Japan (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1945 CE–2026 CE)
Border precision
  • Defined

Elsewhere in East Asia 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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Polity · East Asia

China

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary

400 CE – 1400 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)

1467 CE – 1615 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Forbidden City

1406 CE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty

1618 CE – 1683 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1400 CE and 2026 CE.

1400 CE Malacca 1406 CE Forbidden City 1412 CE Wudang Mountains Temples 1420 CE Temple of Heaven 1467 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) 1467 CE Ōnin War

And in the rest of the world

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

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Ibn Khaldun Figure · North Africa / Mamluk Egypt 1332 CE – 1406 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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