Jê peoples

Jê peoples appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Brazil (South America) from c. 1 CE to the present, a span of 2,024 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Macro-Jê speakers of the central plateau such as the Kayapó, Xavante and Kaingang, who built circular villages around a central plaza. In the south their ancestors lived in pit houses.

See Jê peoples on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 1 CE to the present

Duration

2,024 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Brazil, South America

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Events in South America during its time

• 100 Nazca Lines drawn
• 600 Wari and Tiwanaku expand
• 1438 Pachacuti defeats the Chanka
• 1500 Cabral lands in Brazil
• 1532 Pizarro captures Atahualpa at Cajamarca
• 1542 Orellana descends the Amazon
• 1545 Silver found at Potosí
• 1572 Execution of Tupac Amaru

Neighbours in South America

• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE
• Tiwanaku c. 400 to 1000 CE
• Portuguese Brazil 1500 to 1815 CE
• Viceroyalty of Peru 1542 to 1824 CE
• Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) 1438 to 1533 CE
• Chimú kingdom (Chimor) c. 900 to 1470 CE
• Wari Empire c. 600 to 1000 CE
• Peru 1821 CE to the present
• Colombia 1831 CE to the present
• Argentina 1861 CE to the present

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Swahili city-states c. 800 to 1700 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE, Europe
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Srivijaya c. 650 to 1377 CE, Southeast Asia
• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean

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