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 Pisones 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
Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
Attested 1500 BCE – 1530 CEConflict · Americas
Inca Empire Expansion
1438 CE – 1533 CETrade route · Americas
Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)
1400 CE – 1572 CELandmark · Americas
Kuelap
500 CE – 1570 CEPolity · Americas
Athabascan
Attested 1600 CE – 1783 CEConflict · Americas
Inca Civil War
1529 CE – 1532 CETrade route · Americas
Spanish Treasure Fleet Return
1566 CE – 1790 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1530 CE and 1600 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
- KuélapMartin St-Amant ( S23678 ) · CC BY 3.0
- Athabaskan languagesNoahedits · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Inca Civil WarJohn Harris Valda · Public domain