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Polity South Asia

Austroasian rice cultures

Attested 2000 BCE

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

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Austroasian rice cultures 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

Elsewhere in South 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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Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Dravidians

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

Trade route · South Asia

Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia)

2600 BCE – 1900 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Indus valley civilization

3000 BCE – 1799 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Thar Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibeto-Burmanese

Attested 2000 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Sundarbans

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 2000 BCE.

2000 BCE Knossos 2000 BCE Temple of Karnak 2000 BCE Baalbek 2000 BCE Kondoa Rock Art 2000 BCE Rice Terraces of Banaue

And in the rest of the world

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

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Isin–Larsa Wars Conflict · Middle East 2025 BCE – 1763 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE
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