How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Turcik tribes appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
Running at the same 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
Charyn Canyon
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Scythians
Attested 400 BCE – 100 CEFigure · Judea
Yose ben Yoezer
200 BCE – 161 BCETrade route
Silk Road Southern Branch
200 BCE – 1450 CELandmark
Lake Issyk-Kul
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CELandmark
Pamir Mountains
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Yuezhi
Attested 200 BCEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 200 BCE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Charyn CanyonBgag · CC0
- ScythiansAntiquistik · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Issyk-KulҚайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pamir MountainsAmanovDmitry · CC BY 3.0
- YuezhiM. Vlasenko (Novosibirsk) · Public domain