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Mauretania

300 BCE – 698 CE · 998 years

Region in the ancient Maghreb

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Mauretania's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 200 BCE to 100 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

200 BCE 2 snapshots 100 BCE
200 BCE100 BCE

Elsewhere in Africa 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 · Africa

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Western Route

400 CE

Landmark · Africa

Djenné-Djenno

250 BCE – 1400 CE

Polity · Africa

Umayyad Caliphate

661 CE – 750 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Eastern Route

400 CE

Landmark · Africa

Ile-Ife

500 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Saharan Pastoral Nomads

Attested 2000 BCE – 200 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 698 CE.

300 BCE Volubilis 300 BCE Bandiagara Escarpment 250 BCE Djenné-Djenno 250 BCE Jenne-Jeno 200 BCE Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove 300 CE Koumbi Saleh

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Chandragupta Maurya Figure · India 340 BCE – 297 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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