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Dorset 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 9 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Dorset 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
Chichen Itza
600 CE – still standing
Polity · Americas
Monte Albán
Attested 323 BCE – 700 CETrade route · Americas
Polynesian Eastward Voyaging
700 CE – 1300 CEConflict · Americas
Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries
1200 CE – 1600 CE
Landmark · Americas
Mesa Verde
600 CE – still standingPolity · Americas
Tiahuanaco Empire
Attested 600 CE – 1200 CETrade route · Americas
Voyage to Hawai'i
700 CE – 1300 CEConflict · Americas
Maya City-State Wars
400 BCE – 900 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 1400 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- DorsetSaffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Chichen ItzaDaniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Monte Albánnsaum75 !Dígame¡ · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mesa Verde National ParkTobi 87 · CC BY-SA 4.0
