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Polity East Asia

Yamato

Attested 500 CE – 900 CE

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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 4 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Yamato appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 CE 4 snapshots · 200 years unattested at the widest 900 CE
500 CE600 CE700 CE900 CE

Elsewhere in East 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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Polity · East Asia

Xiongnu

400 BCE – 500 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Bulguksa Temple

528 CE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Chinese Grand Canal

600 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Goguryeo–Sui Wars

598 CE – 614 CE

Polity · East Asia

Japan

Attested 800 CE – 2026 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Shwedagon Pagoda

600 CE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Tea Horse Road

700 CE – 1950 CE

Conflict · East Asia

An Lushan Rebellion

755 CE – 763 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 900 CE.

528 CE Bulguksa Temple 552 CE Göktürk Wars 589 CE Hangzhou 598 CE Goguryeo–Sui Wars 600 CE Shwedagon Pagoda 617 CE Tang Unification Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Sweden Polity · Europe Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CE Polynesian Eastward Voyaging Trade route · Americas 700 CE – 1300 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars Conflict · Europe 629 CE – 1180 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Taxila Landmark · South Asia 600 BCE – 500 CE
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