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Beaker

2600 BCE – 1800 BCE · 800 years

European archaeological culture, 2800–1800 BC

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Beaker's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. Wikidata records more than one founding date; the earliest is shown. The atlas itself draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

2000 BCE

Elsewhere in Europe 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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Tarxien Temples

3600 BCE – 2500 BCE

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Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

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Conquests of Shamshi-Adad I

1808 BCE – 1776 BCE

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Skara Brae

3180 BCE – 2500 BCE

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Hurrian Kingdoms

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Avebury

2850 BCE – 2200 BCE

Polity · Europe

Hittites

Attested 2000 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Knossos

2000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2600 BCE and 1800 BCE.

2000 BCE Knossos 2600 BCE Royal Tombs of Ur 2560 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza 2500 BCE Umma–Lagash Border War 2500 BCE Mohenjo-daro 2500 BCE Kerma

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Early Sumerian City-State Wars Conflict · Middle East 2900 BCE – 2350 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Sphinx of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2500 BCE – still standing
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