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Delaware on Wikipedia.
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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 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Delaware 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 Americas 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 · Americas
Pachacamac
200 CE – 1533 CE
Polity · Americas
Maya chiefdoms and states
2000 BCE – 1521 CETrade route · Americas
Mesoamerican Trade Network
1200 BCE – 1521 CEConflict · Americas
Mississippian Chiefdom Wars
800 CE – 1500 CE
Landmark · Americas
Kuelap
500 CE – 1570 CE
Polity · Americas
Vice-Royalty of New Spain
Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CETrade route · Americas
Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)
1400 CE – 1572 CEConflict · Americas
Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion
1428 CE – 1521 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1500 CE and 1600 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of Delawarexrmap flag collection · Public domain
- PachacamacApollo⠀ · CC BY 2.0
- Maya civilizationKmusser · CC BY-SA 3.0
- KuélapMartin St-Amant ( S23678 ) · CC BY 3.0
- Map of the Viceroyalty of New SpainEddo · CC BY-SA 3.0
