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Polity Africa

Kali

Attested 1715 CE

Major deity in Indian religions symbolizing power, time, and death

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

1715 CE

Elsewhere in Africa 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 · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Morocco

Founded 789 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Landmark · Africa

Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Ghana

Attested 800 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Oyo Empire Wars

1550 CE – 1836 CE

Landmark · Africa

Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

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 Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Wars of Ayutthaya Conflict · East Asia 1351 CE – 1767 CE Louis XIV Figure · France 1638 CE – 1715 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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