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Polity Americas

Zapotec

Attested 400 BCE

Indigenous civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica

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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 Zapotec appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

400 BCE

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 BCE and 400 BCE.

400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Axum 400 BCE Yoshinogari 400 BCE Ostia Antica

And in the rest of the world

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