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Polity Middle East

Kush

Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 4 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Kush appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 4 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 400 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE400 BCE

Elsewhere in Middle East 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 · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Abu Simbel

1264 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Achaemenid Empire

549 BCE – 329 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Campaigns of Thutmose III

1457 BCE – 1425 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 400 BCE.

1500 BCE Tabriz 1470 BCE Temple of Hatshepsut 1457 BCE Campaigns of Thutmose III 1400 BCE Temple of Luxor 1400 BCE Mount Nebo 1274 BCE Egyptian–Hittite Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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