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 Prussians 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
Sveti Tskhoveli Cathedral
1010 CE – still standingPolity · Europe
Ryazan
1097 CE – 1521 CEConflict · Europe
Viking Invasions
793 CE – 1066 CETrade route · Europe
Venice–Constantinople Route
800 CE – 1600 CELandmark · Europe
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
1051 CE – still standingPolity · Europe
Caliphate of Córdoba
756 CE – 1000 CEConflict · Europe
Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars
681 CE – 1018 CETrade route · Europe
Varangian Trade Route
800 CE – 1100 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1000 CE and 1100 CE.
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
- Svetitskhoveli CathedralThis Photo was taken by Supanut Arunoprayote. Feel free to use any of my images, but plea… · CC BY 4.0
- Principality of RyazanHellerick · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Viking expansionAbbey of Saint-Aubin · Public domain
- Kyiv Pechersk LavraFalin · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Umayyad state of CórdobaDaniCBP · CC BY 4.0
- Byzantine–Bulgarian warsGligan at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0