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Catacomb culture

2499 BCE – 1999 BCE · 500 years

Bronze age steppe culture, 2500–1950 BC

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Catacomb culture'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 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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Avebury

2850 BCE – 2200 BCE

Polity · Europe

city-states

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Knossos

2000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Hurrian Kingdoms

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Hittites

Attested 2000 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Assyria

2024 BCE – 608 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2499 BCE and 1999 BCE.

2000 BCE Knossos 2400 BCE Lothal 2334 BCE Akkadian Empire Conquests 2300 BCE Babylon 2154 BCE Gutian Invasion of Akkad 2100 BCE Ziggurat of Ur

And in the rest of the world

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

Babylon Landmark · Middle East 2300 BCE – 275 BCE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Early Sumerian City-State Wars Conflict · Middle East 2900 BCE – 2350 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Baalbek Landmark · Middle East 2000 BCE – still standing
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