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 Pandya state 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
Temples of Bagan
849 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Tibet
Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CEConflict · South Asia
Ghaznavid Conquests of India
1001 CE – 1030 CELandmark · South Asia
Bagan
849 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Sultanate of Delhi
1200 CE – 1526 CEConflict · South Asia
Pagan Empire Wars
1044 CE – 1287 CELandmark · South Asia
Hampi
1336 CE – 1565 CEPolity · South Asia
Ghaznavid Emirate
Attested 1000 CE – 1200 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 1400 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
- TibetUniversity of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
- BaganCorto Maltese 1999 · CC BY 2.0
- Delhi SultanateMaps created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain. Koba-chan Territorial area: प… · CC BY-SA 3.0
- HampiiMahesh · CC BY-SA 4.0