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Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0
Landmark Europe archaeological

Ostia Antica

400 BCE – 500 CE · 900 years

Ancient Rome's main port city at the mouth of the Tiber, remarkably preserved with apartment blocks, baths, theaters, and vivid mosaics

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Ostia Antica on Wikipedia.

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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–500 BCE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (400 BCE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Europe 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 · Europe

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Byzantine Empire

395 CE – 1453 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Conquests of Alexander the Great

334 BCE – 323 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

Cimbrian War

113 BCE – 101 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 BCE and 500 CE.

395 BCE Corinthian War 379 BCE Theban–Spartan War 371 BCE Battle of Leuctra 356 BCE Third Sacred War 350 BCE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Socrates Figure · Greece 470 BCE – 399 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE
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