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 Hurrian Kingdoms 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
Tarxien Temples
3600 BCE – 2500 BCEPolity · Europe
Beaker
2600 BCE – 1800 BCELandmark · Europe
Skara Brae
3180 BCE – 2500 BCEPolity · Europe
Hittites
Attested 2000 BCE – 700 BCELandmark · Europe
Avebury
2850 BCE – 2200 BCEPolity · Europe
Assyria
2024 BCE – 608 BCELandmark · Europe
Knossos
2000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Yamnaya culture
3299 BCE – 2599 BCEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2000 BCE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Tarxien TemplesFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bell Beaker cultureKrakkos · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Skara BraeBewahrerderwerte · CC BY-SA 4.0
- HittitesNissrpska · CC0
- AveburyMikPeach · CC BY-SA 4.0
- AssyriaAusten Henry Layard (1817–1894) · Public domain
- Crete integrated map-enEric Gaba ( Sting ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Yamnaya cultureKrakkos · CC BY-SA 4.0