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Map of the Arab Diaspora in the World
Allice Hunter · CC BY-SA 4.0
Polity Middle East

Arabs

Attested 200 BCE – 1500 CE

Ethnic group

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Arabs appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

200 BCE 3 snapshots · 1,692 years unattested at the widest 1500 CE
200 BCE1492 CE1500 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

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

The Crusades

1096 CE – 1291 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

1181 CE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid)

274 BCE – 168 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 1500 CE.

200 BCE Palmyra 200 BCE Jerash 167 BCE Maccabean Revolt 150 BCE Qumran 120 BCE Ctesiphon 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih)

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Amber Road Trade route · Europe 1000 BCE – 400 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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