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Polity South Asia

Indus valley civilization

3000 BCE – 1799 BCE · 1,201 years

Bronze Age civilisation in South Asia

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Indus valley civilization's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

3000 BCE 2 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 2000 BCE
3000 BCE2000 BCE

Elsewhere in South 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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Landmark · South Asia

Mohenjo-daro

2500 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibeto-Burmanese

Attested 2000 BCE

Trade route · South Asia

Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia)

2600 BCE – 1900 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Lothal

2400 BCE – 1900 BCE

Polity · South Asia

Austroasian rice cultures

Attested 2000 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Dravidians

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 1799 BCE.

3000 BCE Mount Kailash 3000 BCE Dholavira 2500 BCE Mohenjo-daro 2400 BCE Lothal 3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Egyptian Red Sea Trade Trade route · Middle East 2500 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Sphinx of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2500 BCE – still standing
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