How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which minor Hindu kingdoms 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 South 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.
Landmark · South Asia
Mount Everest
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Cholas
299 BCE – 1279 CEConflict · South Asia
Pagan Empire Wars
1044 CE – 1287 CELandmark · South Asia
Western Ghats
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Tibet
Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CEConflict · South Asia
Delhi Sultanate Wars
1206 CE – 1398 CELandmark · South Asia
Thar Desert
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Hindu kingdoms
Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1279 CE and 1300 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Mount EverestRdevany · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Chola dynastyThe original uploader was Venu62 at English Wikipedia. · Public domain
- Western GhatsMdmadhu · CC BY-SA 4.0
- TibetUniversity of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Thar Desertsushmita balasubramani · CC BY 2.0