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Adapted from the maps by Y. Subbarayalu for Rajan Gurukkal · CC BY-SA 4.0
Polity South Asia

Cheras

Attested 500 CE – 700 CE

Dynasty in ancient South India

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Chera dynasty on Wikipedia.

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Cheras appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 CE 2 snapshots · 200 years unattested at the widest 700 CE
500 CE700 CE

Elsewhere in South Asia 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 · South Asia

Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

Polity · South Asia

Zhangzhung Kingdom

500 BCE – 625 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Hephthalite Wars

420 CE – 560 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Ellora Caves

600 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Gupta Empire

300 CE – 550 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Potala Palace

637 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibetan Empire

618 CE – 900 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Boudhanath Stupa

600 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 700 CE.

500 CE Colombo 600 CE Ellora Caves 600 CE Boudhanath Stupa 637 CE Potala Palace 637 CE Lhasa 647 CE Jokhang Temple

And in the rest of the world

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

Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Himyarite Kingdom Polity · Middle East 109 BCE – 525 CE Chinese Grand Canal Trade route · East Asia 600 CE Goguryeo–Sui Wars Conflict · East Asia 598 CE – 614 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Mesa Verde Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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