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Polity

Scythians

Attested 400 BCE – 100 CE

Nomadic Iranic people of the Pontic Steppe

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

The atlas draws the world at 4 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Scythians appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

400 BCE 4 snapshots · 200 years unattested at the widest 100 CE
400 BCE200 BCE100 BCE100 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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Samarkand

300 BCE – still standing

Polity

Yuezhi

Attested 200 BCE

Figure · Greece

Socrates

470 BCE – 399 BCE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Landmark

Kashgar

200 BCE – still standing

Polity

Yueban

Attested 100 CE – 400 CE

Figure · Greece

Plato

428 BCE – 348 BCE

Landmark

Dunhuang

200 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 BCE and 100 CE.

300 BCE Samarkand 200 BCE Kashgar 200 BCE Dunhuang 200 BCE Jiaohe Ruins 400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Axum

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Hadramaut Polity · Middle East 323 BCE – 1700 CE
Image credits8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • ScythiansAntiquistik · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • SamarkandRegistan_-_Gusjer.jpg : Gustavo Jeronimo from Aranjuez, Spain derivative work: MrPanyGoff · CC BY 2.0
  • YuezhiM. Vlasenko (Novosibirsk) · Public domain
  • SocratesCopy of Lysippos (?) · Public domain
  • KashgarN509FZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • YuebanThomas A. Lessman, en:User:Talessman · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • PlatoMarie-Lan Nguyen · Public domain
  • Dunhuang慕尼黑啤酒 · CC BY-SA 3.0