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Urartu 743-en
Sémhur · CC BY-SA 4.0
Polity Middle East

Urartu

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Iron-Age kingdom of the ancient Near East

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

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Urartu appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 3 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 700 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE

Elsewhere in Middle East 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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Abu Simbel

1264 BCE – still standing

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Qataban

800 BCE – 150 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Campaigns of Thutmose III

1457 BCE – 1425 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Kerma

2500 BCE – 1500 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Andronovo

2299 BCE – 999 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Phoenician Trade Route

800 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Sea Peoples Invasions

1208 BCE – 1178 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 700 BCE.

1500 BCE Tabriz 1470 BCE Temple of Hatshepsut 1457 BCE Campaigns of Thutmose III 1400 BCE Temple of Luxor 1400 BCE Mount Nebo 1274 BCE Egyptian–Hittite Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Chavin Polity · Americas 1000 BCE – 100 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars Conflict · East Asia 771 BCE – 476 BCE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Ephesus Landmark · Europe 1000 BCE – still standing
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