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Polity Americas

Couture Complex

Attested 100 BCE – 500 CE

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 7 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Couture Complex appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

100 BCE 7 snapshots · 101 years unattested at the widest 500 CE
100 BCE1 BCE100 CE200 CE300 CE400 CE500 CE

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

Newark Earthworks

100 BCE – 400 CE

Polity · Americas

Chorrera

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Teotihuacan Entrada into the Maya Lowlands

378 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mitla

100 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Chavin

Attested 1000 BCE – 100 BCE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Landmark · Americas

Huaca de la Luna

100 CE – 800 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 100 BCE and 500 CE.

100 CE Mitla 100 CE Cobá 226 CE Palenque 500 CE Uxmal 500 CE Kuelap 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih)

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Three Kingdoms (China) Conflict · East Asia 220 CE – 280 CE Joshua ben Perachiah Figure · Jerusalem / Alexandria 140 BCE – 76 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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