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Landmark Americas trade

Santa Fe

1610 CE – still standing

Northern terminus of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and later the Santa Fe Trail, linking Mexico City to Spanish and American frontier trade networks.

Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1600 CE)
  2. Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  3. Luisiana (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. United States (1914 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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Image credits 4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Christ the Redeemer (statue) Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
  • Parícutin Karla Yannín Alcázar Quintero (photographer) · CC BY 2.0
  • Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain