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Polity East Asia

Hövsgöl Nuur

Attested 100 BCE

Largest freshwater lake in Mongolia

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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 Hövsgöl Nuur appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

100 BCE

Elsewhere in East Asia 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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Polity · East Asia

Xiongnu

400 BCE – 500 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Han–Xiongnu Wars

200 BCE – 89 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Polity · East Asia

Ainu

Attested 3000 BCE – 1700 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Polity · East Asia

Han Empire

205 BCE – 220 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 100 BCE and 100 BCE.

100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih) 100 BCE Dambulla Cave Temple

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 Maya City-State Wars Conflict · Americas 400 BCE – 900 CE Joshua ben Perachiah Figure · Jerusalem / Alexandria 140 BCE – 76 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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