How these dates were made
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 Kimek-Kipchak khaganate appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
Running at the same 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
Charyn Canyon
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Srivijaya Empire
650 CE – 1400 CETrade route
Silk Road Southern Branch
200 BCE – 1450 CEConflict
Srivijaya Maritime Wars
600 CE – 1288 CEFigure · Babylonia (modern Iraq)
Hai Gaon
939 CE – 1038 CELandmark
Lake Issyk-Kul
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CEFigure · Persia / Central Asia
Ibn Sina
980 CE – 1037 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1000 CE and 1000 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Charyn CanyonBgag · CC0
- Srivijaya EmpireGunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Hai ben SheriraPublic domain
- Issyk-KulҚайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0
- AvicennaNational Library of Medicine · No restrictions