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Landmark East Asia archaeological

Yoshinogari

400 BCE – 300 CE · 700 years

Largest Yayoi-period settlement in Japan, a fortified moat-encircled village on Kyushu revealing early Japanese state formation

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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. Yayoi (400 BCE–100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (200 CE–400 CE)
  4. Yamato (500 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Japan (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Yamato (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Imperial Japan (Fujiwara) (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Shogun Japan (Kamakura) (1200 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Shogun Japan (Ashikaga) (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Japan (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Japan (Warring States) (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Tokugawa Shogunate (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Japan (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Imperial Japan (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Empire of Japan (1914 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Japan (USA) (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Japan (1960 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

Thai

Attested 2000 BCE – 200 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Gyeongju Historic Areas

57 BCE – 935 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Warring States Period

475 BCE – 221 BCE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Polity · East Asia

Zhou states

Attested 500 BCE – 400 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Terracotta Army

210 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Qin Wars of Unification

230 BCE – 221 BCE

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 BCE and 300 CE.

350 BCE Xianyang Palace 260 BCE Battle of Changping 230 BCE Qin Wars of Unification 210 BCE Terracotta Army 206 BCE Chu–Han Contention

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 Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Conquests of Alexander the Great Conflict · Europe 334 BCE – 323 BCE Socrates Figure · Greece 470 BCE – 399 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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