How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Satavahanihara appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
Elsewhere in South Asia 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.
Landmark · South Asia
Temple of the Tooth
300 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Gupta Empire
300 CE – 550 CEConflict · South Asia
Kushan Empire Conquests
30 CE – 375 CELandmark · South Asia
Tirumala Venkateswara Temple
300 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Kushan Empire
Attested 100 BCE – 100 CEConflict · South Asia
Gupta Campaigns of Samudragupta
335 CE – 375 CELandmark · South Asia
Pashupatinath Temple
400 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Pallavas
275 CE – 897 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1 BCE and 400 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Temple of the ToothA.Savin · FAL
- Gupta EmpireMap created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain. Koba-chan. · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Venkateswara Temple, TirumalaNikhilb239 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kushan EmpireMap created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain. Koba-chan. Reference: Schwartz… · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Pashupatinath TempleBijay Chaurasia · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pallava dynastyMap created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain. Koba-chan. Reference: [1] Bord… · CC BY 4.0