
Mon-Khmer
Attested 200 BCE
Language family concentrated in Southeast Asia
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Austroasiatic languages on Wikipedia.
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How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Mon-Khmer 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
Xiongnu
400 BCE – 500 CELandmark · East Asia
Yakushima
3000 BCE – still standingConflict · East Asia
Han–Xiongnu Wars
200 BCE – 89 CETrade route · East Asia
Silk Road
200 BCE – 1450 CEPolity · East Asia
Ainu
Attested 3000 BCE – 1700 CELandmark · East Asia
Great Wall of China
700 BCE – still standingTrade route · East Asia
Maritime Silk Road
200 BCE – 1500 CEPolity · East Asia
Thai
Attested 2000 BCE – 200 BCEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 200 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
- Austroasiatic-enArnoldPlaton, based on the maps Austroaziatisch.PNG and Se asia lang map.png, edited by N… · Copyrighted free use
- YakushimaNASA · Public domain
- Han–Xiongnu warsPHG · Public domain
- Silk road KazakhstanUser:Kelvin Case User:Turkish Flame User:SmallJarsWithGreenLabels · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ainu peopleTorbenbrinker · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Great Wall of ChinaSeverin.stalder · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Maritime Silk RoadObsidian Soul · CC0