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Chola Empire Map (1)
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Polity South Asia

Chola

Attested 200 CE

Medieval Indian empire (848–1279)

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

200 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

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Kushan Empire Conquests

30 CE – 375 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Thar Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Zhangzhung Kingdom

500 BCE – 625 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Sundarbans

3000 BCE – still standing

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Maya City-State Wars Conflict · Americas 400 BCE – 900 CE Nagarjuna Figure · South India 150 CE – 250 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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