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 Korea (USSR) 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.
Landmark · East Asia
Yakushima
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · East Asia
China
Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CETrade route · East Asia
Tea Horse Road
700 CE – 1950 CEConflict · East Asia
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937 CE – 1945 CELandmark · East Asia
Great Wall of China
700 BCE – still standingPolity · East Asia
Russia
Founded 1263 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · East Asia
Chinese Civil War
1927 CE – 1949 CELandmark · East Asia
Ha Long Bay
3000 BCE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1945 CE and 1945 CE.
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
- YakushimaNASA · Public domain
- Flag of the People's Republic of ChinaZeng Liansong · Public domain
- Tea Horse RoadRedgeographics · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Second Sino-Japanese WarUnknown photographer, Ministry of the Navy · Public domain
- Great Wall of ChinaSeverin.stalder · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of RussiaPeter the Great · Public domain
- Chinese Civil War《中国人民解放军历史资料图集 4 解放战争时期(上册)》 长城出版社 1984年10月 · Public domain
- Hạ Long BayTaewangkorea · CC BY-SA 4.0