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Hammurabi's Babylonia 1
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Polity Middle East

Babylonia

1900 BCE – 538 BCE · 1,362 years

Ancient Amorite-Akkadian state in Mesopotamia

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Babylonia's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1500 BCE to 700 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

1500 BCE 3 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 700 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE

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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Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Saba

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Abu Simbel

1264 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Achaemenid Empire

549 BCE – 329 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Phoenician Trade Route

800 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Campaigns of Thutmose III

1457 BCE – 1425 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1900 BCE and 538 BCE.

1800 BCE Cave of the Patriarchs 1764 BCE Elamite–Babylonian Wars 1595 BCE Kassite Conquest of Babylon 1550 BCE Expulsion of the Hyksos 1539 BCE Valley of the Kings 1500 BCE Tabriz

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars Conflict · East Asia 771 BCE – 476 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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