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Polity Americas

Mesoamerican city-states and chiefdoms

Attested 800 CE – 1200 CE

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

The atlas draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Mesoamerican city-states and chiefdoms appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

800 CE 5 snapshots 1200 CE
800 CE900 CE1000 CE1100 CE1200 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

Tak’alik Ab’aj

800 BCE – 900 CE

Polity · Americas

Shellfish gatherers

Attested 1500 BCE – 800 CE

Trade route · Americas

Voyage to Aotearoa (New Zealand)

1100 CE – 1400 CE

Conflict · Americas

Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries

1200 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Americas

Tierradentro

600 BCE – 900 CE

Polity · Americas

Polynesians

Attested 1000 CE – 1880 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 1200 CE.

800 CE Mississippian Warfare 800 CE Ciudad Perdida 828 CE Pueblo Bonito 850 CE Chan Chan 850 CE Quilmes Ruins 850 CE Chaco Canyon

And in the rest of the world

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

Gyeongju Historic Areas Landmark · East Asia 57 BCE – 935 CE Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Varangian Trade Route Trade route · Europe 800 CE – 1100 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars Conflict · Europe 629 CE – 1180 CE Charlemagne Figure · Frankish Empire 742 CE – 814 CE Temples of Bagan Landmark · South Asia 849 CE – still standing
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