How these dates were made
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 minor Hindu and Buddhist states 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
Mongol Empire
1200 CE – 1368 CELandmark · East Asia
Angkor Wat
1113 CE – still standingTrade route · East Asia
Silk Road
200 BCE – 1450 CEConflict · East Asia
Khitan Liao Wars
907 CE – 1125 CEPolity · East Asia
Đại Việt
1054 CE – 1805 CELandmark · East Asia
Yakushima
3000 BCE – still standingTrade route · East Asia
Maritime Silk Road
200 BCE – 1500 CEConflict · East Asia
Song–Liao Wars
979 CE – 1005 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1000 CE 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
- Mongol EmpireDannamEmpire · CC BY 4.0
- Angkor WatBjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Silk road KazakhstanUser:Kelvin Case User:Turkish Flame User:SmallJarsWithGreenLabels · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Đại ViệtNight Lantern · CC BY-SA 3.0
- YakushimaNASA · Public domain
- Maritime Silk RoadObsidian Soul · CC0