How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 12 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Alwa appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
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.
Landmark · Middle East
Lighthouse of Alexandria
280 BCE – 1323 CE
Polity · Middle East
Mamluke Sultanate
1250 CE – 1517 CETrade 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
Sasanian Empire
224 CE – 700 CETrade route · Middle East
Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch
200 BCE – 1500 CE
Conflict · Middle East
Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628
602 CE – 628 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 600 CE and 1500 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Lighthouse of AlexandriaProf. Hermann Thiersch (1874–1939) · Public domain
- Mamluk SultanateRo4444 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Crusadesanonymus · Public domain
- Rock-Hewn Churches, LalibelaSailko · CC BY 3.0
- The Sasanian Empire at its apex under Khosrow IIOriginal file by Ro4444, edited by me · CC BY 4.0
- Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628Piero della Francesca · Public domain
