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 Malay 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
Khmer Empire
802 CE – 1431 CELandmark · East Asia
Haeinsa Temple
802 CE – still standingTrade route · East Asia
Silk Road
200 BCE – 1450 CEConflict · East Asia
Uyghur Khaganate Wars
744 CE – 840 CEPolity · East Asia
Rajput Clans and Small States
Attested 800 CELandmark · East Asia
House of Taga
900 CE – 1700 CETrade route · East Asia
Maritime Silk Road
200 BCE – 1500 CEConflict · East Asia
Wars of the Khmer Empire
802 CE – 1431 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 900 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
- Map-of-southeast-asia 900 CEJembezmamy · CC0
- Haeinsa한국교육방송공사 · CC BY 4.0
- Silk road KazakhstanUser:Kelvin Case User:Turkish Flame User:SmallJarsWithGreenLabels · CC BY-SA 4.0
- House of TagaCT Snow from Hsinchu, Taiwan · CC BY 2.0
- Maritime Silk RoadObsidian Soul · CC0