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Polity Americas

Polynesians

Attested 1000 CE – 1880 CE

Austronesian ethnolinguistic group

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

The atlas draws the world at 17 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Polynesians appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1000 CE 17 snapshots 1880 CE
1000 CE1100 CE1200 CE1279 CE1300 CE1400 CE1492 CE1500 CE1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE1880 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

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

3700 BCE – 1850 CE

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1000 CE and 1880 CE.

1000 CE Marae Taputapuātea 1000 CE L'Anse aux Meadows 1100 CE Cusco 1200 CE Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 1200 CE Tulum 1250 CE Rano Raraku

And in the rest of the world

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

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Hai Gaon Figure · Babylonia (modern Iraq) 939 CE – 1038 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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