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Polity

Tuʻi Tonga Empire

Attested 500 CE – 1815 CE

Empire based in Oceania during around 950s–1865

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

The atlas draws the world at 18 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Tuʻi Tonga Empire appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 CE 18 snapshots · 400 years unattested at the widest 1815 CE
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