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Dunhuang

200 BCE – still standing

Oasis town and Silk Road waypoint near the Mogao Caves

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–300 BCE)
  2. Yuezhi (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE–600 CE)
  4. Karluks (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Tibetan Empire (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Tibet (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Xixia (1000 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Great Khanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Ming Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Chagatai Khanate (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE)
  12. central Asian khanates (1600 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Qing Empire (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Not stated
  14. Manchu Empire (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Republic of China (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Chinese Warlords (1920 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Republic of China (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. China (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate
  • Not stated

Running at the same time

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Landmark

Mogao Caves

366 CE – still standing

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Figure · Judea

Yose ben Yoezer

200 BCE – 161 BCE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict

Mongol Conquests

1206 CE – 1368 CE

Landmark

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

1389 CE – still standing

Polity

Srivijaya Empire

650 CE – 1400 CE

Figure · Jerusalem / Alexandria

Joshua ben Perachiah

140 BCE – 76 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 2026 CE.

200 BCE Kashgar 200 BCE Jiaohe Ruins 366 CE Mogao Caves 552 CE Göktürk Khaganate Wars 600 CE Srivijaya Maritime Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE
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