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Polity Middle East

Axum

Attested 1 BCE – 900 CE

Town in Tigray Region, Ethiopia

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

The atlas draws the world at 10 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Axum appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1 BCE 10 snapshots · 101 years unattested at the widest 900 CE
1 BCE100 CE200 CE300 CE400 CE500 CE600 CE700 CE800 CE900 CE

Elsewhere in Middle East 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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Adulis

600 BCE – 700 CE

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Roman–Parthian Wars

53 BCE – 217 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Jerash

200 BCE – 749 CE

Polity · Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mediterranean Southern Route

331 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Jewish–Roman Wars

66 CE – 135 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1 BCE and 900 CE.

66 CE Jewish–Roman Wars 132 CE Bar Kokhba Revolt 224 CE Early Sassanid–Roman Wars 270 CE Aksumite–Himyarite Wars 270 CE Palmyrene Empire 326 CE Church of the Nativity

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Sweden Polity · Europe Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CE Amber Road Trade route · Europe 1000 BCE – 400 CE Three Kingdoms (China) Conflict · East Asia 220 CE – 280 CE Augustus Caesar Figure · Rome 63 BCE – 14 CE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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