How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 9 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Malaya 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
Korea
Attested 1000 CE – 1900 CELandmark · East Asia
House of Taga
900 CE – 1700 CETrade route · East Asia
Manila Galleon Trade
1565 CE – 1815 CEConflict · East Asia
Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty
1618 CE – 1683 CEPolity · East Asia
Mongolia
Founded 1914 CE · attested to 2026 CELandmark · East Asia
Ayutthaya
1351 CE – 1767 CETrade route · East Asia
Trans-Pacific Route
1850 CEConflict · East Asia
First Opium War
1839 CE – 1842 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1914 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
- Korea (orthographic projection)Gringer · CC0
- House of TagaCT Snow from Hsinchu, Taiwan · CC BY 2.0
- Flag of MongoliaCurrent version is SVG implementation of the Mongolian flag as described by Mongolian Nat… · Public domain
- Flag of Thailand (Ayutthaya period)Xiengyod · Public domain
- First Opium WarEdward Duncan · Public domain