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Polity South Asia

Vedic Aryans

1500 BCE – 500 BCE · 1,000 years

Ancient South Asian historical period

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Vedic Aryans's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1500 BCE to 700 BCE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

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

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

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Harappa

3300 BCE – 1300 BCE

Polity · South Asia

Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Dholavira

3000 BCE – 1500 BCE

Polity · South Asia

Zhangzhung Kingdom

500 BCE – 625 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Lumbini

563 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Dravidians

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 500 BCE.

600 BCE Taxila 563 BCE Lumbini 528 BCE Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple) 528 BCE Sarnath 500 BCE Anuradhapura 1500 BCE Tabriz

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE
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