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Polity Oceania

Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

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

The atlas draws the world at 36 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

2000 BCE 36 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 1815 CE
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Elsewhere in Oceania 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 · Oceania

Rangitoto Island

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Malaysian Islamic states

Attested 1492 CE – 1600 CE

Trade route · Oceania

Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia)

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Oceania

Musket Wars

1807 CE – 1845 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Borobudur

800 CE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Austronesians

Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE

Conflict · Oceania

Wars of Majapahit

1293 CE – 1527 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Prambanan

850 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 1815 CE.

1000 BCE Teouma Lapita Cemetery 800 CE Borobudur 850 CE Prambanan 1000 CE Pura Besakih 1280 CE Wairau Bar 1293 CE Wars of Majapahit

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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