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Shuar on Wikipedia.
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How these dates were made
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 Shuar appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
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.
Landmark · Americas
Machu Picchu
1450 CE – still standingPolity · Americas
Canada
Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CETrade route · Americas
Mesoamerican Trade Network
1200 BCE – 1521 CEConflict · Americas
Hawaiian Unification Wars
1782 CE – 1810 CELandmark · Americas
San Agustín Archaeological Park
600 BCE – 1350 CEPolity · Americas
Mexico
Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CETrade route · Americas
Polynesian Eastward Voyaging
700 CE – 1300 CEConflict · Americas
Argentine War of Independence
1810 CE – 1818 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1279 CE and 1815 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- ShuarKintianua · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Machu PicchuDraceane · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of Canada (Pantone)Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
- San Agustín Archaeological ParkBernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of MexicoOmar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain