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Landmark Middle East trade

Hormuz

1100 CE – 1600 CE · 500 years

Island kingdom controlling Persian Gulf trade routes

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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–1000 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1100 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Middle East at the 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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Landmark · Middle East

Lighthouse of Alexandria

280 BCE – 1323 CE

Polity · Middle East

Mamluke Sultanate

1250 CE – 1517 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mediterranean Southern Route

331 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

The Crusades

1096 CE – 1291 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

1181 CE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Safavid Empire

1501 CE – 1736 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Khwarezmian Empire Expansion

1141 CE – 1218 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1100 CE and 1600 CE.

1142 CE Krak des Chevaliers 1157 CE Sultan Sanjar Mausoleum 1181 CE Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela 1181 CE Lalibela Rock Churches 1187 CE Battle of Hattin

And in the rest of the world

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

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Al-Ghazali Figure · Khorasan / Seljuk Empire 1058 CE – 1111 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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