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พระมหาเทวประภาส วชิรญาณเมธี (ผู้ถ่าย-ปล่อยสัญญาอนุญาตภาพให้นำไปใช้ได้เพื่อการศึกษาโดยอยู่… · CC BY-SA 3.0
Figure Northern India / Nepal philosopher

Buddha

563 BCE – 483 BCE · 80 years

The life of Siddhartha Gautama — a prince who abandoned a palace for a forest, starved himself to the edge of death, and emerged with a diagnosis of human suffering that has shaped the lives of half a billion people.

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The Buddha on Wikipedia.

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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.

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Bukhara

500 BCE – still standing

Polity

Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

Figure · State of Lu, China

Confucius

551 BCE – 479 BCE

Landmark

Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand)

500 BCE – 1220 CE

Figure · Zhou Kingdom, China

Laozi

550 BCE – 490 BCE

Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Figure · Athens

Pericles

495 BCE – 429 BCE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 563 BCE and 483 BCE.

500 BCE Bukhara 500 BCE Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand) 563 BCE Lumbini 559 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great 550 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 546 BCE Pasargadae

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Pasargadae Landmark · Middle East 546 BCE – 330 BCE Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE
Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • The Buddha พระมหาเทวประภาส วชิรญาณเมธี (ผู้ถ่าย-ปล่อยสัญญาอนุญาตภาพให้นำไปใช้ได้เพื่อการศึกษาโดยอยู่… · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Bukhara Euyasik · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Confucius Anonymous Chinese painter of the Western Han period · Public domain
  • Laozi (Chinese characters) White whirlwind · Public domain
  • Charyn Canyon Bgag · CC0
  • Pericles Copy of Kresilas · Public domain
  • Issyk-Kul Қайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0