How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Proto-Scythian culture 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 Europe 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 · Europe
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Greek city-states
Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCETrade route · Europe
Amber Road
1000 BCE – 400 CEConflict · Europe
Sargonid Assyrian Conquests
745 BCE – 631 BCELandmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Celts
Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCEConflict · Europe
Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions
720 BCE – 650 BCELandmark · Europe
Danube Delta
3000 BCE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 700 BCE and 700 BCE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- PolisA.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Amber RoadBearas · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
- CeltsQuartierLatin1968,The Ogre,Dbachmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Danube DeltaEuropean Space Agency · Attribution