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Polity Middle East

Qataban

800 BCE – 150 CE · 950 years

Ancient Yemeni kingdom

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Qataban's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 4 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 323 BCE to 100 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

323 BCE 4 snapshots 100 BCE
323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE100 BCE

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

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Hadramaut

Attested 323 BCE – 1700 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Kushite Conquest of Egypt

747 BCE – 656 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 BCE and 150 CE.

800 BCE Heracleion 750 BCE Meroe 747 BCE Kushite Conquest of Egypt 700 BCE Thonis 612 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests 600 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • QatabanThomas Lessman ( Contact! ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • PetraAzurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • MeroëWufei07 · Public domain
  • Hanging Gardens of Babylonhttp://www.plinia.net/wonders/gardens/hgpix1.html · Public domain
  • HadhramautJialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org [ dead link ] · CC BY-SA 3.0