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Dravidian map
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Polity South Asia

Dravidians

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

South Asian ethnolinguistic group

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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 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Dravidians appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

3000 BCE 5 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 700 BCE
3000 BCE2000 BCE1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE

Elsewhere in South 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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Landmark · South Asia

Harappa

3300 BCE – 1300 BCE

Polity · South Asia

Tibetans

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Trade route · South Asia

Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia)

2600 BCE – 1900 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Dholavira

3000 BCE – 1500 BCE

Polity · South Asia

Indus valley civilization

3000 BCE – 1799 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Mohenjo-daro

2500 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Vedic Aryans

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Lothal

2400 BCE – 1900 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 700 BCE.

3000 BCE Mount Kailash 3000 BCE Dholavira 2500 BCE Mohenjo-daro 2400 BCE Lothal 3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Egyptian Red Sea Trade Trade route · Middle East 2500 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
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