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Polity Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Ancient Greek social and political organisation

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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 7 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Greek city-states 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 7 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 300 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE300 BCE

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

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Celts

Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Greco-Persian Wars

499 BCE – 449 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

435 BCE – 426 CE

Polity · Europe

Carthaginian Empire

801 BCE – 145 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Conquests of Alexander the Great

334 BCE – 323 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

350 BCE – 1404 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 300 BCE.

1400 BCE Lion Gate of Hattusa 1200 BCE Sardis 1194 BCE Trojan War & Late Bronze Age Conflicts 1100 BCE Cádiz 1000 BCE Ephesus 911 BCE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence

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 Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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