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 Daces 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 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.
Landmark · Europe
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Celts
Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCETrade route · Europe
Amber Road
1000 BCE – 400 CEConflict · Europe
Roman–Numidian Wars
206 BCE – 46 BCELandmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Saami
Attested 1500 BCE – 700 CEConflict · Europe
Second Servile War
104 BCE – 100 BCELandmark · Europe
Danube Delta
3000 BCE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 100 BCE and 100 BCE.
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
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- CeltsQuartierLatin1968,The Ogre,Dbachmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Amber RoadBearas · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Second Servile WarCNG · CC BY-SA 2.5
- Danube DeltaEuropean Space Agency · Attribution