How these dates were made
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 Cuacasian Albania appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
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.
Landmark · Middle East
Great Pyramid of Giza
2560 BCE – still standingPolity · Middle East
Egypt
Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CETrade route · Middle East
Mediterranean Southern Route
331 BCE – 1500 CEConflict · Middle East
Early Muslim Conquests
632 CE – 750 CELandmark · Middle East
Petra
300 BCE – still standingPolity · Middle East
Persia
Attested 400 CE – 1914 CETrade route · Middle East
Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch
200 BCE – 1500 CEConflict · Middle East
Khazar-Arab Wars
642 CE – 799 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 700 CE and 700 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- 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
- Map of expansion of CaliphateDieBuche · Public domain
- PetraAzurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of Iran (official)SVG file: SiBr 4 Designer: Hamid Nadimi Construction: ISIRI · Public domain
- Map of the Caucasus, 740 CEConstantine Plakidas · CC BY-SA 4.0