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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), collage by Dylan240. · Public domain
Landmark wonder

Aral Sea

3000 BCE – still standing

Once the world's fourth-largest lake on the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border, a stark monument to environmental change

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Wikipedia

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Aral Sea on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
  2. Andronovo (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Karasuk culture (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 BCE–1200 CE)
  5. Khanate of the Golden Horde (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1400 CE–1500 CE)
  7. Khiva Khanate (1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Nogai Horde (1600 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1783 CE)
  10. central Asian khanates (1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1815 CE–1880 CE)
  12. Russian Empire (1900 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Russian SFSR (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. USSR (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Uzbekistan (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Running at the same time

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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Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Landmark

Mogao Caves

366 CE – still standing

Figure · Mesopotamia

Sargon of Akkad

2334 BCE – 2279 BCE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict

Mongol Conquests

1206 CE – 1368 CE

Polity

Srivijaya Empire

650 CE – 1400 CE

Landmark

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

1389 CE – still standing

Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan

Moses

1391 BCE – 1271 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain 500 BCE Bukhara 500 BCE Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand) 300 BCE Samarkand 200 BCE Kashgar 200 BCE Dunhuang

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE
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