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Polity Africa

Ethiopian highland farmers

Attested 1500 BCE – 323 BCE

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 6 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Ethiopian highland farmers appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 6 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 323 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE

Elsewhere in Africa 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 · Africa

Leptis Magna

1000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE

Landmark · Africa

Tassili n'Ajjer

8000 BCE – 1500 BCE

Polity · Africa

Berbers

Attested 1500 BCE – 900 CE

Landmark · Africa

Thimlich Ohinga

1400 BCE – 1900 CE

Polity · Africa

Guanches

Attested 1500 BCE – 1815 CE

Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

West African cereal farmers

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 323 BCE.

1400 BCE Thimlich Ohinga 1000 BCE Leptis Magna 1000 BCE Nok 631 BCE Cyrene 1500 BCE Tabriz 1470 BCE Temple of Hatshepsut

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE
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