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Polity East Asia

Prot-Altaic pastoralists

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

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

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Prot-Altaic pastoralists appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 3 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 700 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE

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.

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Polity · East Asia

Zhoa

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Spring and Autumn Period Wars

771 BCE – 476 BCE

Polity · East Asia

Sinic

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Shang–Zhou War (Battle of Muye)

1046 BCE

Polity · East Asia

Ainu

Attested 3000 BCE – 1700 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Ha Long Bay

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 700 BCE.

1200 BCE Sanxingdui 1046 BCE Shang–Zhou War (Battle of Muye) 771 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars 700 BCE Great Wall of China 1500 BCE Tabriz 1470 BCE Temple of Hatshepsut

And in the rest of the world

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

Abu Simbel Landmark · Middle East 1264 BCE – still standing Chavin Polity · Americas 1000 BCE – 100 BCE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Campaigns of Thutmose III Conflict · Middle East 1457 BCE – 1425 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Ephesus Landmark · Europe 1000 BCE – still standing
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