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Landmark Americas archaeological

Uxmal

500 CE – 1000 CE · 500 years

Puuc-style Maya city in the Yucatán with the rounded Pyramid of the Magician and elaborately carved stone facades

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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–400 CE)
  2. Maya states (500 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Maya city-states (800 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Maya Yucateco (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Maya city-states (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Mayas (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1650 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Mexico (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Monte Albán

Attested 323 BCE – 700 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mesa Verde

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Tiahuanaco Empire

Attested 600 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Americas

Voyage to Hawai'i

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Monte Albán Zapotec Conquest State

200 BCE – 500 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 1000 CE.

500 CE Kuelap 600 CE Chichen Itza 600 CE Mesa Verde 600 CE Cahokia Mounds 600 CE Joya de Cerén

And in the rest of the world

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

Taxila Landmark · South Asia 600 BCE – 500 CE Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Chinese Grand Canal Trade route · East Asia 600 CE Goguryeo–Sui Wars Conflict · East Asia 598 CE – 614 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Gyeongju Historic Areas Landmark · East Asia 57 BCE – 935 CE
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