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Polity East Asia

Ming Chinese Empire

Attested 1500 CE – 1600 CE

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

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Ming Chinese Empire appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 CE 3 snapshots 1600 CE
1500 CE1530 CE1600 CE

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.

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Polity · East Asia

Ainus

Attested 1279 CE – 1500 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Pha That Luang

1566 CE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Toungoo Dynasty Wars

1510 CE – 1599 CE

Polity · East Asia

Siberians

Attested 1279 CE – 1500 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Manila

1571 CE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Manila Galleon Trade

1565 CE – 1815 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Burmese–Siamese Wars

1547 CE – 1767 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 CE and 1600 CE.

1510 CE Toungoo Dynasty Wars 1510 CE Toungoo Empire Wars 1547 CE Burmese–Siamese Wars 1566 CE Pha That Luang 1571 CE Manila 1571 CE Nagasaki

And in the rest of the world

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

Hampi Landmark · South Asia 1336 CE – 1565 CE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Anglo–Scottish Wars Conflict · Europe 1296 CE – 1560 CE Christopher Columbus Figure · Spain / Atlantic / Caribbean 1451 CE – 1506 CE Pachacamac Landmark · Americas 200 CE – 1533 CE
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