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Polity South Asia

Kosala

700 BCE – 500 BCE · 200 years

One of the Mahajanapadas

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Kosala'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 one moment in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 500 BCE to 500 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

500 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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Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

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Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Lumbini

563 BCE – still standing

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Zhangzhung Kingdom

500 BCE – 625 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple)

528 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Dravidians

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Sarnath

528 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 700 BCE and 500 BCE.

600 BCE Taxila 563 BCE Lumbini 528 BCE Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple) 528 BCE Sarnath 500 BCE Anuradhapura 700 BCE Great Wall of China

And in the rest of the world

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

Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Persian Royal Road Trade route · Middle East 500 BCE – 330 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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