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Polity South Asia

Kushan Principalities

Attested 500 CE

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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 Kushan Principalities appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 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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Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

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Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Hephthalite Wars

420 CE – 560 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

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Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Thar Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

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Zhangzhung Kingdom

500 BCE – 625 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Sundarbans

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 500 CE.

500 CE Colombo 500 CE Ile-Ife 500 CE Uxmal 500 CE Kuelap 500 CE Ife

And in the rest of the world

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

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Maya City-State Wars Conflict · Americas 400 BCE – 900 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Persia Polity · Middle East 400 CE – 1914 CE
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