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Polity South Asia

Magadha

Attested 500 BCE – 200 CE

Region and Mahajanapada in ancient eastern India

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

500 BCE 4 snapshots · 523 years unattested at the widest 200 CE
500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE200 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

Ajanta Caves

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Suren Kingdom

Attested 1 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Kushan Empire Conquests

30 CE – 375 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Sanchi Stupa

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Saka Kingdom

199 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Seleucid–Maurya War

305 BCE – 303 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Sanchi Stupas

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 200 CE.

500 BCE Anuradhapura 305 BCE Seleucid–Maurya War 300 BCE Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE Sanchi Stupas 300 BCE Ai-Khanoum 300 BCE Somnath Temple

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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