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Copy of Kresilas · Public domain
Figure Athens leader

Pericles

495 BCE – 429 BCE · 66 years

The statesman who built the Parthenon, perfected Athenian democracy, and delivered the most famous speech in Western history — then watched plague destroy everything he had created.

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Pericles 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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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

Figure · Northern India / Nepal

Buddha

563 BCE – 483 BCE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Figure · State of Lu, China

Confucius

551 BCE – 479 BCE

Landmark

Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Figure · Zhou Kingdom, China

Laozi

550 BCE – 490 BCE

Landmark

Kolsai Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 495 BCE and 429 BCE.

490 BCE Battle of Marathon 480 BCE Sicilian Wars 480 BCE Battle of Thermopylae 480 BCE Battle of Salamis 478 BCE Temple of Confucius, Qufu 475 BCE Warring States Period

And in the rest of the world

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

Statue of Zeus at Olympia Landmark · Europe 435 BCE – 426 CE Bosporan Kingdom Polity · Europe 436 BCE – 370 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Temple of Confucius, Qufu Landmark · East Asia 478 BCE – still standing Bosporian Kingdom Polity · Europe 436 BCE – 370 CE
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • PericlesCopy of Kresilas · Public domain
  • Charyn CanyonBgag · CC0
  • The Buddhaพระมหาเทวประภาส วชิรญาณเมธี (ผู้ถ่าย-ปล่อยสัญญาอนุญาตภาพให้นำไปใช้ได้เพื่อการศึกษาโดยอยู่… · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Issyk-KulҚайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • ConfuciusAnonymous Chinese painter of the Western Han period · Public domain
  • Pamir MountainsAmanovDmitry · CC BY 3.0
  • Laozi (Chinese characters)White whirlwind · Public domain