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Polity South Asia

Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Native ethnic group of Sri Lanka

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How these dates were made

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

The atlas draws the world at 14 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Simhala 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 14 snapshots · 101 years unattested at the widest 700 CE
500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE100 BCE1 BCE100 CE200 CE300 CE400 CE500 CE600 CE700 CE

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.

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Landmark · South Asia

Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

Polity · South Asia

Zhangzhung Kingdom

500 BCE – 625 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Hephthalite Wars

420 CE – 560 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Ajanta Caves

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Suren Kingdom

Attested 1 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Kushan Empire Conquests

30 CE – 375 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Ellora Caves

600 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 700 CE.

500 BCE Anuradhapura 305 BCE Seleucid–Maurya War 300 BCE Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE Sanchi Stupas 300 BCE Ai-Khanoum 300 BCE Somnath Temple

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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