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How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Virginia 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 Americas 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 · Americas
Panama Viejo
1519 CE – 1671 CE
Polity · Americas
Rupert's Land
1670 CE – 1870 CE
Conflict · Americas
Arauco War
1550 CE – 1662 CETrade route · Americas
Spanish Treasure Fleet Return
1566 CE – 1790 CELandmark · Americas
Cathedral of Caracas
1665 CE – still standingPolity · Americas
Caribbean hunter-gatherers
Attested 1500 BCE – 1650 CE.jpg/500px-A_map_of_New_England%2C_being_the_first_that_ever_was_here_cut_..._places_(2675732378).jpg)
Conflict · Americas
King Philip's War
1675 CE – 1678 CETrade route · Americas
Atlantic Return (Sugar & Tobacco)
1600 CE – 1850 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1700 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
- Flag of VirginiaLadyofHats with additional editing by 痛 and Patrickneil / Charles Keck · Public domain
- Panamá ViejoMelpanama · CC BY 3.0
- Hudson's Bay Company FlagUnknown source · Public domain
- Arauco WarTomas Lopez compuesto por el mapa manuscrito de Poncho Chileno, Madrid 1777 · Public domain
- King Philip's Warhttp://maps.bpl.org · CC BY 2.0
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