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Polity Africa

Saharan Pastoral Nomads

Attested 2000 BCE – 200 BCE

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

The atlas draws the world at 9 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Saharan Pastoral Nomads appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

2000 BCE 9 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 200 BCE
2000 BCE1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE

Elsewhere in Africa 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 · Africa

Leptis Magna

1000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE

Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Khoisan

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Africa

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Bantu

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Africa

Tassili n'Ajjer

8000 BCE – 1500 BCE

Polity · Africa

Berbers

Attested 1500 BCE – 900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 200 BCE.

2000 BCE Kondoa Rock Art 1400 BCE Thimlich Ohinga 1000 BCE Leptis Magna 1000 BCE Nok 631 BCE Cyrene 300 BCE Volubilis

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 Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 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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