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Berbers

Attested 1500 BCE – 900 CE

Ethnic group indigenous to North Africa

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

1500 BCE 4 snapshots · 1,600 years unattested at the widest 900 CE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE900 CE

Elsewhere in Africa 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 · Africa

Leptis Magna

1000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Western Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Morocco

Founded 789 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Eastern Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Ghana Empire Wars

750 CE – 1076 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 900 CE.

1400 BCE Thimlich Ohinga 1000 BCE Leptis Magna 1000 BCE Nok 631 BCE Cyrene 300 BCE Volubilis 300 BCE Bandiagara Escarpment

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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