🇧🇴 Bolivia
One mountain in Bolivia financed the Spanish empire for two centuries, and the city beneath it was briefly among the largest in the world. Above 3,600 metres the light is hard, the air is thin and the architecture is unlike anywhere else in the Americas.
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Bolivia is the altiplano — a treeless high plain between two Andean ranges, with a salt flat, a great lake and mining towns clinging to slopes — plus lowland forest most people never picture. Colonial architecture here is mestizo baroque, and it is unmistakable.
Architecture
Church portals crowded with carved sirens, grapes, suns and Andean motifs are mestizo baroque, 1690–1780, and specific to the PotosÖLa Paz–Arequipa axis. Adobe with tin roofs stacked up steep slopes is twentieth-century La Paz. Precision-fitted andesite with sunken plazas is Tiwanaku.
Landscape
A white salt plain to the horizon with hexagonal ridges is Uyuni. Deep blue lake at 3,800 m with reed boats is Titicaca. A red-and-grey conical mountain looming directly over a town's rooftops is Cerro Rico at Potosà — no other Bolivian view looks like it.
Period tells
Bowler hats on Aymara women are a twentieth-century tradition, not a colonial one — they appear from the 1920s. Cable-car gondolas over La Paz place you after 2014. Colonial silver-mine machinery and ingenio water wheels date from 1570 onward.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Bolivians can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Southern shore of Lake TiticacaMedieval
The Gate of the Sun and precision-cut andesite blocks, in a ceremonial city on a treeless plain at 3,850 m.
PotosÃEarly modern
The mountain that minted the Spanish empire — and consumed generations of forced mita labour to do it.
La PazThe long 19th century
One of the earliest revolts in Spanish America, sixteen years before it finally succeeded.
Casa de la Libertad, SucreThe long 19th century
The new republic named itself after BolÃvar and wrote its constitution in a Jesuit chapel.
La Higuera, VallegrandeModern era
A failed rural insurgency ended in a schoolhouse in a village of thirty families.
Bolivian history touches medieval & renaissance, 19th century and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own — the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Bolivia.
Medieval & Renaissance
Bolivian moments here: Tiwanaku at its height (800), Silver found at Cerro Rico (1545).
19th century
Bolivian moments here: The first cry of independence (1809), Bolivia declares independence (1825).
20th century
Bolivian moment here: Che Guevara captured (1967).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath — cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.Tiwanaku at its height — what year?
Answer800
The Gate of the Sun and precision-cut andesite blocks, in a ceremonial city on a treeless plain at 3,850 m.
2.Silver found at Cerro Rico — what year?
Answer1545
The mountain that minted the Spanish empire — and consumed generations of forced mita labour to do it.
3.The first cry of independence — what year?
Answer1809
One of the earliest revolts in Spanish America, sixteen years before it finally succeeded.
4.Bolivia declares independence — what year?
Answer1825
The new republic named itself after BolÃvar and wrote its constitution in a Jesuit chapel.
5.Che Guevara captured — what year?
Answer1967
A failed rural insurgency ended in a schoolhouse in a village of thirty families.
6.Which came first in Bolivia — Tiwanaku at its height or Silver found at Cerro Rico?
AnswerTiwanaku at its height, in 800.
Silver found at Cerro Rico follows in 1545, 745 years later.
7.Where in Bolivia would you drop the pin for Tiwanaku at its height?
AnswerSouthern shore of Lake Titicaca
The Gate of the Sun and precision-cut andesite blocks, in a ceremonial city on a treeless plain at 3,850 m.
8.Where in Bolivia would you drop the pin for Silver found at Cerro Rico?
AnswerPotosÃ
The mountain that minted the Spanish empire — and consumed generations of forced mita labour to do it.
9.How far apart are the oldest and newest Bolivian moments in this collection?
Answer1,167 years
From Tiwanaku at its height in 800 to Che Guevara captured in 1967.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment — "Tiwanaku at its height, Southern shore of Lake Titicaca" — and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360° scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough — an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
A 4K 360° panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
🇧🇴 Put your own scene on /play/bolivia
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours — you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Bolivians want to see in the game. Vote them up — the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360° scene from Bolivia's past. Look around for clues — architecture, clothing, technology, landscape — then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
No. You can play Bolivian rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
The collection spans 800 to 1967 — from tiwanaku at its height through to che guevara captured. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Yes — that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Bolivians would recognise instantly, like tiwanaku at its height. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360° rounds and credited on the page.
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