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Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893 · No restrictions
Polity Middle East

Canaan

Attested 2000 BCE

Region in the ancient Near East

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

2000 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

Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Egypt

Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Isin–Larsa Wars

2025 BCE – 1763 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Dead Sea

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Semites

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Wadi Rum

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 2000 BCE.

2000 BCE Temple of Karnak 2000 BCE Baalbek 2000 BCE Knossos 2000 BCE Kondoa Rock Art 2000 BCE Rice Terraces of Banaue

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 Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • CanaanSchaff, Philip, 1819-1893 · No restrictions
  • Great Pyramid of GizaDouwe C. van der Zee · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of EgyptDerived from Part IV Article (223) of the Constitution of The Arab Republic of Egypt. Col… · Public domain
  • Dead Seaلا روسا · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Semitic peopleJohann Christoph Gatterer · Public domain
  • Wadi RumDaniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0