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Polity East Asia

Zhou states

Attested 500 BCE – 400 BCE

Chinese dynasty from c. 1046 to 256 BC

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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 Zhou states appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 BCE 2 snapshots 400 BCE
500 BCE400 BCE

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

Temple of Confucius, Qufu

478 BCE – still standing

Conflict · East Asia

Warring States Period

475 BCE – 221 BCE

Polity · East Asia

Yayoi

Attested 400 BCE – 700 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Yoshinogari

400 BCE – 300 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Spring and Autumn Period Wars

771 BCE – 476 BCE

Polity · East Asia

Donghu tribes

Attested 400 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 400 BCE.

500 BCE Plain of Jars 478 BCE Temple of Confucius, Qufu 475 BCE Warring States Period 400 BCE Yoshinogari 500 BCE Bukhara 500 BCE Nazca Lines

And in the rest of the world

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

Statue of Zeus at Olympia Landmark · Europe 435 BCE – 426 CE Scythians Polity 400 BCE – 100 CE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Ziggurat of Ur Landmark · Middle East 2100 BCE – 500 BCE
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