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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC · Public domain
Landmark East Asia wonder

Lake Baikal

3000 BCE – still standing

World's deepest and oldest freshwater lake, holding 20% of Earth's surface fresh water

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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–2000 BCE)
  2. Proto-Altaic pastoralists (1500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE–300 BCE)
  4. Turkic tribes (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE–600 CE)
  6. Germanic and Slavic tribes (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (800 CE–1000 CE)
  8. Mongols (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1200 CE)
  10. Great Khanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Ming Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Chagatai Khanate (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE)
  14. central Asian khanates (1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Tsardom of Muscovy (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Russian Empire (1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1800 CE)
  18. Russian Empire (1815 CE–1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1900 CE)
  20. Russian Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. Russian SFSR (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. USSR (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  23. Russia (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in East Asia 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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Polity · East Asia

China

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)

1467 CE – 1615 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Gyeongju Historic Areas

57 BCE – 935 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Warring States Period

475 BCE – 221 BCE

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

2000 BCE Rice Terraces of Banaue 1200 BCE Sanxingdui 1046 BCE Shang–Zhou War (Battle of Muye) 771 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars 700 BCE Great Wall of China 500 BCE Plain of Jars

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 Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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