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Greek Colonization Archaic Period
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Polity Europe

Greek colonies

Attested 400 BCE

Archaic Greek expansion across the Mediterranean and Black Sea (750–550 BC)

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

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

400 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

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Roman–Etruscan Wars

509 BCE – 264 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Celts

Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Sicilian Wars

480 BCE – 307 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 BCE and 400 BCE.

400 BCE Ostia Antica 400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Axum 400 BCE Yoshinogari

And in the rest of the world

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

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Socrates Figure · Greece 470 BCE – 399 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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