Chiefdom · approximate1000 – 1500 · 500 years

Tapajós / Santarém culture

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Tapajós / Santarém culture. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Chiefdom

A paramount chiefdom with tributary peripheries; extent is inferred from settlement and tribute patterns and remains approximate.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced from Roosevelt; Gomes; lower Tapajós chiefdom around Santarém at the Amazon confluence (poorly bounded)
SNAPSHOT1300
MATCHEDBrazil
POLITY TYPEchiefdom

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

Mongol Conquests1206–1368
World-changing · 40M dead
Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
World-changing · 20M dead
Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
World-changing · 15M dead
Timurid Invasions1368–1405
World-changing · 5.0M dead
Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
World-changing · 5.0M dead
American Indian Wars1500–1800
World-changing · 5.0M dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1000 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Tapajós / Santarém culture (1000 – 1500). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/tapajos-santarem-culture · Sources & methodology