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Landmark Americas archaeological

Tulum

1200 CE – 1521 CE · 321 years

Walled Maya coastal city perched on Caribbean sea cliffs in the Yucatán, one of the last cities inhabited at Spanish arrival

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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–1100 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1200 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Tiahuanaco Empire

Attested 600 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Mississippian Chiefdom Wars

800 CE – 1500 CE

Landmark · Americas

San Agustín Archaeological Park

600 BCE – 1350 CE

Polity · Americas

Huari Empire

600 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Americas

Voyage to Hawai'i

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion

1428 CE – 1521 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1200 CE and 1521 CE.

1200 CE Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 1250 CE Rano Raraku 1325 CE Templo Mayor 1325 CE Tenochtitlán Market 1400 CE Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau

And in the rest of the world

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

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Zhu Xi Figure · Fujian and Jiangxi, Southern Song dynasty China 1130 CE – 1200 CE Lighthouse of Alexandria Landmark · Middle East 280 BCE – 1323 CE
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