Franks
Attested 400 CE – 500 CE
Germanic people from the Lower Rhine
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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 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Franks 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 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.
Landmark · Europe
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
435 BCE – 426 CE
Polity · Europe
France
Founded 481 CE · attested to 2026 CE
Trade route · Europe
Amber Road
1000 BCE – 400 CE
Conflict · Europe
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
376 CE – 476 CE
Landmark · Europe
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standing
Polity · Europe
Frankish Kingdom
481 CE – 843 CETrade route · Europe
Roman Mediterranean Trade
27 BCE – 476 CEConflict · Europe
Hunnic Invasions of Europe
370 CE – 454 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 400 CE and 500 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- FranksHans Erren · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Statue of Zeus at OlympiaQuatremère de Quincy · Public domain
- Flag of FranceOriginal: Unknown Vector: SKopp · Public domain
- Amber RoadBearas · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Fall of the Western Roman EmpireRoke ( d ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- FranciaCC BY-SA 3.0
