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Polity Americas

Monte Albán

Attested 323 BCE – 700 CE

Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Mexico

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

The atlas draws the world at 12 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Monte Albán appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

323 BCE 12 snapshots · 101 years unattested at the widest 700 CE
323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE100 BCE1 BCE100 CE200 CE300 CE400 CE500 CE600 CE700 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

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Chorrera

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Monte Albán Zapotec Conquest State

200 BCE – 500 CE

Landmark · Americas

Teotihuacan

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Chavin

Attested 1000 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Americas

Voyage to Hawai'i

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Tikal–Calakmul Superpower Wars

537 CE – 743 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 323 BCE and 700 CE.

300 BCE Great Serpent Mound 250 BCE Maya City-State Wars 200 BCE Teotihuacan 200 BCE Tiwanaku 200 BCE Copán 100 CE Mitla

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Aristotle Figure · Greece 384 BCE – 322 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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