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Samnites

Attested 500 BCE – 400 BCE

Italic people living in Samnium in south-central Italy

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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 Samnites appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 BCE 2 snapshots 400 BCE
500 BCE400 BCE

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 400 BCE.

500 BCE Roman Forum 499 BCE Greco-Persian Wars 499 BCE Ionian Revolt 490 BCE Battle of Marathon 480 BCE Sicilian Wars 480 BCE Battle of Thermopylae

And in the rest of the world

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