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Polity Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Country in West Asia

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 7 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Persia appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

400 CE 7 snapshots · 1,383 years unattested at the widest 1914 CE
400 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE1880 CE1900 CE1914 CE

Elsewhere in Middle East 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.

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Landmark · Middle East

Lighthouse of Alexandria

280 BCE – 1323 CE

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mediterranean Southern Route

331 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

The Crusades

1096 CE – 1291 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

1181 CE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Hadramaut

Attested 323 BCE – 1700 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628

602 CE – 628 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 CE and 1914 CE.

470 CE Yazd Atash Behram 548 CE St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai 548 CE St. Catherine's Monastery 600 CE Muscat 602 CE Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628 615 CE Mosque of the Companions

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing
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