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 Maan 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 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.
Landmark · Middle East
Hegra (Mada'in Salih)
100 BCE – 106 CEPolity · Middle East
Himyarite Kingdom
109 BCE – 525 CETrade route · Middle East
Nile River Trade
3000 BCE – 30 BCEConflict · Middle East
Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid)
274 BCE – 168 BCELandmark · Middle East
Great Pyramid of Giza
2560 BCE – still standingPolity · Middle East
Meroe
Attested 500 BCE – 400 CETrade route · Middle East
Egyptian Red Sea Trade
2500 BCE – 30 BCEConflict · Middle East
Maccabean Revolt
167 BCE – 160 BCEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 100 BCE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- HimyarDamiKarv · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Great Pyramid of GizaDouwe C. van der Zee · CC BY-SA 4.0
- MeroëWufei07 · Public domain
- Maccabean RevoltMachaerus ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 4.0