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Ivan Sache · Public domain
Polity Middle East

Mahra

Attested 1530 CE – 1700 CE

1432–1967 sultanate in modern-day Yemen

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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 4 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Mahra appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1530 CE 4 snapshots 1700 CE
1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE

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.

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Hormuz

1100 CE – 1600 CE

Polity · Middle East

Awsa

Attested 1650 CE – 1800 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Ottoman-Portuguese Wars

1538 CE – 1559 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Shah Mosque

1611 CE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Egypt

Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1530 CE and 1700 CE.

1538 CE Ottoman-Portuguese Wars 1611 CE Shah Mosque 1532 CE Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire 1532 CE Battle of Cajamarca 1533 CE Cartagena de Indias 1536 CE Buenos Aires

And in the rest of the world

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

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Manchu Empire Polity · East Asia 1650 CE – 1914 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Venice–Constantinople Route Trade route · Europe 800 CE – 1600 CE Nicolaus Copernicus Figure · Poland / Prussia 1473 CE – 1543 CE Hampi Landmark · South Asia 1336 CE – 1565 CE
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