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Polity Europe

city-states

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Sovereign state consisting primarily of a city and its territory

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

3000 BCE 2 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 2000 BCE
3000 BCE2000 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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Landmark · Europe

Tarxien Temples

3600 BCE – 2500 BCE

Polity · Europe

Beaker

2600 BCE – 1800 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Skara Brae

3180 BCE – 2500 BCE

Polity · Europe

Hittites

Attested 2000 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Avebury

2850 BCE – 2200 BCE

Polity · Europe

Assyria

2024 BCE – 608 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Knossos

2000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Yamnaya culture

3299 BCE – 2599 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2000 BCE.

3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange 3000 BCE Delos

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Sphinx of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2500 BCE – still standing
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