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Japan on Wikipedia.
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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 11 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Japan 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 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.
Polity · East Asia
China
Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE
Landmark · East Asia
Gyeongju Historic Areas
57 BCE – 935 CE
Trade route · East Asia
Silk Road
200 BCE – 1450 CEConflict · East Asia
Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)
1467 CE – 1615 CE.svg/500px-Flag_of_China_(1889%E2%80%931912).svg.png)
Polity · East Asia
Manchu Empire
Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE
Landmark · East Asia
Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary
400 CE – 1400 CE
Trade route · East Asia
Maritime Silk Road
200 BCE – 1500 CEConflict · East Asia
Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty
1618 CE – 1683 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 2026 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of JapanLaw Concerning the National Flag and Anthem (1999) (Japanese) (English); Ministry of Defe… · Public domain
- Flag of the People's Republic of ChinaZeng Liansong · Public domain
- Gyeongju Historic AreasMarcopolis at English Wikipedia · Public domain
- Silk road KazakhstanUser:Kelvin Case User:Turkish Flame User:SmallJarsWithGreenLabels · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of China (1889–1912)Original: zh:清朝政府 Vector: Sodacan · Public domain
- Mỹ SơnChainwit. · CC BY 4.0
- Maritime Silk RoadObsidian Soul · CC0
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