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Polity Americas

Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers and maïze farmers

Attested 2000 BCE

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

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers and maïze farmers appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

2000 BCE

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

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Maya chiefdoms and states

2000 BCE – 1521 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Norte Chico

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Americas

Hawaii Volcanoes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Arctic marine mammal hunters

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

Landmark · Americas

Carlsbad Caverns

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Valdivia

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 2000 BCE.

2000 BCE Knossos 2000 BCE Temple of Karnak 2000 BCE Baalbek 2000 BCE Kondoa Rock Art 2000 BCE Rice Terraces of Banaue

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Isin–Larsa Wars Conflict · Middle East 2025 BCE – 1763 BCE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE
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