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Polity East Asia

Austronesian peoples

Attested 2000 BCE – 1994 CE

Speakers of Austronesian languages

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

The atlas draws the world at 35 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Austronesian peoples 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 35 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 1994 CE
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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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Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

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700 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

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1467 CE – 1615 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Gyeongju Historic Areas

57 BCE – 935 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Warring States Period

475 BCE – 221 BCE

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 1994 CE.

2000 BCE Rice Terraces of Banaue 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

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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