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 Malays 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
Xiongnu
400 BCE – 500 CELandmark · East Asia
Gyeongju Historic Areas
57 BCE – 935 CEConflict · East Asia
Three Kingdoms (China)
220 CE – 280 CETrade route · East Asia
Chinese Grand Canal
600 CEPolity · East Asia
Song Empire
960 CE – 1279 CELandmark · East Asia
Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary
400 CE – 1400 CEConflict · East Asia
Goguryeo–Sui Wars
598 CE – 614 CETrade route · East Asia
Tea Horse Road
700 CE – 1950 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 1200 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Gyeongju Historic AreasMarcopolis at English Wikipedia · Public domain
- Three KingdomsThree Kingdoms fan · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Grand Canal (China)EditQ · CC BY-SA 4.0
- China - Song Dynasty-enChina - Song Dynasty - cs.svg : User:Mozzan derivative work: Kanguole · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mỹ SơnChainwit. · CC BY 4.0
- Tea Horse RoadRedgeographics · CC BY-SA 4.0