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Polity South Asia

Kushan Empire

Attested 100 BCE – 100 CE

30–375 CE empire in Central and South Asia

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How these dates were made

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

The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Kushan Empire appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

100 BCE 2 snapshots · 200 years unattested at the widest 100 CE
100 BCE100 CE

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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Landmark · South Asia

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Suren Kingdom

Attested 1 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Kushan Empire Conquests

30 CE – 375 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Mauryan Empire

321 BCE – 100 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Thar Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Kalinga

Attested 1 BCE – 1000 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Sundarbans

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 100 BCE and 100 CE.

100 BCE Dambulla Cave Temple 30 CE Kushan Empire Conquests 100 CE Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih) 91 BCE Social War (Italian War) 88 BCE Mithridatic Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Roman–Numidian Wars Conflict · Europe 206 BCE – 46 BCE Joshua ben Perachiah Figure · Jerusalem / Alexandria 140 BCE – 76 BCE Delos Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – 69 BCE
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