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 Turingians 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 Europe 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 · Europe
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Byzantine Empire
395 CE – 1453 CEConflict · Europe
Frankish Conquest of Gaul
486 CE – 507 CELandmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Eastern Roman Empire
395 CE – 1453 CELandmark · Europe
Danube Delta
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Saami
Attested 1500 BCE – 700 CELandmark · Europe
Białowieża Forest
3000 BCE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 500 CE.
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
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Eastern Roman Empire 565 CEMnohohrishnyi · CC0
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Danube DeltaEuropean Space Agency · Attribution
- Białowieża ForestJacek Karczmarz · CC BY-SA 3.0