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 White Russia 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
Xinjiang
Founded 1914 CE · attested to 1945 CEFigure · United States
Woodrow Wilson
1856 CE – 1924 CEConflict
Basmachi Movement
1916 CE – 1934 CELandmark
Lake Issyk-Kul
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Dutch East Indies
Attested 1650 CE – 1938 CEFigure · Prague / Austria-Hungary
Franz Kafka
1883 CE – 1924 CELandmark
Pamir Mountains
3000 BCE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1920 CE and 1930 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Charyn CanyonBgag · CC0
- XinjiangHaziiDozen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Woodrow WilsonHarris & Ewing, photographer · Public domain
- Basmachi movementАртур Васильевич Гулян (Рильский) 1895—1927 год. · Public domain
- Issyk-KulҚайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of the NetherlandsZscout370 · Public domain
- Franz KafkaFranz Kafka: Pictures of a Life by Klaus Wagenbach (1984), p. 209 and Kafka Bildarchiv. P… · Public domain
- Pamir MountainsAmanovDmitry · CC BY 3.0