How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Laotian states 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.
Polity · East Asia
Ainu
Attested 3000 BCE – 1700 CELandmark · East Asia
House of Taga
900 CE – 1700 CETrade route · East Asia
Tea Horse Road
700 CE – 1950 CEConflict · East Asia
Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty
1618 CE – 1683 CEPolity · East Asia
Dutch Formosa
1624 CE – 1700 CELandmark · East Asia
Yakushima
3000 BCE – still standingTrade route · East Asia
Manila Galleon Trade
1565 CE – 1815 CEConflict · East Asia
Wars of Lan Xang
1353 CE – 1707 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1715 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Ainu peopleTorbenbrinker · CC BY-SA 3.0
- House of TagaCT Snow from Hsinchu, Taiwan · CC BY 2.0
- Tea Horse RoadRedgeographics · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of the Dutch East India CompanyHimasaram · Public domain
- YakushimaNASA · Public domain