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Polity Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in Northern Sudan

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 10 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Meroe appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 BCE 10 snapshots · 177 years unattested at the widest 400 CE
500 BCE323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE100 BCE1 BCE100 CE200 CE300 CE400 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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Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

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Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

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Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid)

274 BCE – 168 BCE

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

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Hadramaut

Attested 323 BCE – 1700 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Maccabean Revolt

167 BCE – 160 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 400 CE.

500 BCE Aden 500 BCE Adulis 400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Axum 332 BCE Siege of Tyre 331 BCE Alexandria

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 Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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