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 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 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.
Landmark · Europe
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Carthaginian Empire
801 BCE – 145 BCETrade route · Europe
Amber Road
1000 BCE – 400 CEConflict · Europe
Cimbrian War
113 BCE – 101 BCELandmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Carthage
801 BCE – 145 BCEConflict · Europe
Punic Wars
264 BCE – 146 BCELandmark · Europe
Danube Delta
3000 BCE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 100 BCE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- CarthageELEL09, montage · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Amber RoadBearas · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Cimbrians and Teutons invasionsPethrus · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Punic Warsderivative work: Carnby · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Danube DeltaEuropean Space Agency · Attribution