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Polity Europe

European tribal peoples

Attested 3000 BCE – 1930 CE

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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 20 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which European tribal peoples 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 20 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 1930 CE
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Elsewhere in Europe 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 · Europe

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

Napoleonic Wars

1803 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 1930 CE.

3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange 3000 BCE Delos

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 Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 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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