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Polity South Asia

Bactria

Attested 200 BCE

Historical region in Central Asia

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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 Bactria appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

200 BCE

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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3000 BCE – still standing

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Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

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Thar Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

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500 BCE – 625 CE

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Sundarbans

3000 BCE – still standing

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Mauryan Empire

321 BCE – 100 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 200 BCE.

200 BCE Ajanta Caves 200 BCE Amaravati Stupa 200 BCE Han–Xiongnu Wars 200 BCE Palmyra 200 BCE Teotihuacan 200 BCE Tiwanaku

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 Maya City-State Wars Conflict · Americas 400 BCE – 900 CE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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