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Polity Europe

Saami

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 CE

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

The atlas draws the world at 16 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Saami 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 16 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 700 CE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE100 BCE1 BCE100 CE300 CE400 CE500 CE600 CE700 CE

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.

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Landmark · Europe

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Byzantine Empire

395 CE – 1453 CE

Conflict · Europe

Greco-Persian Wars

499 BCE – 449 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Conquests of Alexander the Great

334 BCE – 323 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 700 CE.

1400 BCE Lion Gate of Hattusa 1200 BCE Sardis 1194 BCE Trojan War & Late Bronze Age Conflicts 1100 BCE Cádiz 1000 BCE Ephesus 911 BCE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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