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Polity East Asia

Donghu tribes

Attested 400 BCE

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

400 BCE

Elsewhere in East 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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Polity · East Asia

Xiongnu

400 BCE – 500 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Warring States Period

475 BCE – 221 BCE

Polity · East Asia

Ainu

Attested 3000 BCE – 1700 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Thai

Attested 2000 BCE – 200 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Ha Long Bay

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Zhou states

Attested 500 BCE – 400 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 BCE and 400 BCE.

400 BCE Yoshinogari 400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Axum 400 BCE Ostia Antica

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 Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Roman–Etruscan Wars Conflict · Europe 509 BCE – 264 BCE Socrates Figure · Greece 470 BCE – 399 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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