How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Montagnais Innu 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 Americas 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 · Americas
Pachacamac
200 CE – 1533 CEPolity · Americas
Vice-Royalty of Peru
Attested 1650 CE – 1815 CEConflict · Americas
Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries
1200 CE – 1600 CETrade route · Americas
Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)
1400 CE – 1572 CELandmark · Americas
Kuelap
500 CE – 1570 CEPolity · Americas
Vice-Royalty of Brazil
Attested 1715 CE – 1800 CEConflict · Americas
Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars)
1609 CE – 1701 CETrade route · Americas
Spanish Treasure Fleet Return
1566 CE – 1790 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1530 CE and 1715 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- PachacamacApollo⠀ · CC BY 2.0
- Map of the Viceroyalty of Peru (+claimed Patagonian and Amazonic territories) (cropped)Milenioscuro Derivative work: Janitoalevic · CC BY-SA 3.0
- KuélapMartin St-Amant ( S23678 ) · CC BY 3.0
- Colonial BrazilFloppa Historico · CC BY-SA 4.0