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Polity East Asia

Austro-Asiatic rice farmers

Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE

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

The atlas draws the world at 4 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Austro-Asiatic rice farmers appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 4 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 400 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE400 BCE

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

Xiongnu

400 BCE – 500 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Warring States Period

475 BCE – 221 BCE

Polity · East Asia

Zhoa

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Temple of Confucius, Qufu

478 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Spring and Autumn Period Wars

771 BCE – 476 BCE

Polity · East Asia

Sinic

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Yoshinogari

400 BCE – 300 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 400 BCE.

1200 BCE Sanxingdui 1046 BCE Shang–Zhou War (Battle of Muye) 771 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars 700 BCE Great Wall of China 500 BCE Plain of Jars 478 BCE Temple of Confucius, Qufu

And in the rest of the world

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

Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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