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Ruanruan

330 CE – 555 CE · 225 years

330–550 AD Proto-Mongolic state

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Ruanruan'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 2 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 400 CE to 500 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

400 CE 2 snapshots 500 CE
400 CE500 CE

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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

Mogao Caves

366 CE – still standing

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Tuʻi Tonga Empire

Attested 500 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

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Yueban

Attested 100 CE – 400 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

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Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

Landmark

Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 330 CE and 555 CE.

366 CE Mogao Caves 552 CE Göktürk Khaganate Wars 330 CE Constantinople 335 CE Gupta Campaigns of Samudragupta 335 CE Church of the Holy Sepulchre 368 CE Polonnaruwa

And in the rest of the world

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

Statue of Zeus at Olympia Landmark · Europe 435 BCE – 426 CE Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Amber Road Trade route · Europe 1000 BCE – 400 CE Fall of the Western Roman Empire Conflict · Europe 376 CE – 476 CE Olympia Landmark · Europe 776 BCE – 393 CE Persia Polity · Middle East 400 CE – 1914 CE
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