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Landmark Americas archaeological

Sacsayhuamán

1438 CE – 1533 CE · 95 years

Massive Inca fortress above Cusco with interlocking stone walls made of boulders weighing over 100 tonnes each

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Sacsayhuamán 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–1400 CE)
  2. Quechua (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Amazon hunter-gatherers (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Peru (1880 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

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Maya chiefdoms and states

2000 BCE – 1521 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Mississippian Chiefdom Wars

800 CE – 1500 CE

Landmark · Americas

Spiro Mounds

800 CE – 1450 CE

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of New Spain

Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Americas

Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)

1400 CE – 1572 CE

Conflict · Americas

Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion

1428 CE – 1521 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1438 CE and 1533 CE.

1438 CE Inca Empire Expansion 1438 CE Qorikancha 1450 CE Machu Picchu 1460 CE Mapuche–Inca War 1462 CE Chimú–Inca War

And in the rest of the world

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

Rangitoto Island Landmark · Oceania 1450 CE – still standing central Asian khanates Polity 1530 CE – 1900 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Pachacuti Figure · Cusco, Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire) 1418 CE – 1471 CE Royal Hill of Ambohimanga Landmark · Africa 1500 CE – still standing
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