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Polity South Asia

Avanti

Attested 500 BCE

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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 one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Avanti appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 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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Landmark · South Asia

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Thar Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Zhangzhung Kingdom

500 BCE – 625 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Sundarbans

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Vedic Aryans

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 500 BCE.

500 BCE Anuradhapura 500 BCE Bukhara 500 BCE Nazca Lines 500 BCE Roman Forum 500 BCE Monte Albán 500 BCE Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand)

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars Conflict · East Asia 771 BCE – 476 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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