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User:Bibi Saint-Pol · CC BY-SA 3.0
Polity Europe

Minoan

3299 BCE – 1099 BCE · 2,200 years

Bronze Age civilization on Crete and other Aegean Islands

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Minoan civilization on Wikipedia.

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Minoan's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. Wikidata records more than one founding date; the earliest is shown. The atlas itself draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

3000 BCE 2 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 2000 BCE
3000 BCE2000 BCE

Elsewhere in Europe 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 · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Conquests of Shamshi-Adad I

1808 BCE – 1776 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Celts

Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Hittite Old Kingdom Campaigns

1650 BCE – 1590 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Saami

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3299 BCE and 1099 BCE.

3180 BCE Skara Brae 3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange

And in the rest of the world

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

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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