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Trade route Oceania

Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia)

1500 BCE – 500 BCE · 1,000 years

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Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

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Landmark · Oceania

Teouma Lapita Cemetery

1000 BCE – 800 BCE

Polity · Oceania

Austronesians

Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE

Landmark · Oceania

Great Barrier Reef

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Polynesian peoples

Attested 3000 BCE – 1200 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Tasmanian hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1715 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 500 BCE.

1000 BCE Teouma Lapita Cemetery 1500 BCE Tabriz 1470 BCE Temple of Hatshepsut 1457 BCE Campaigns of Thutmose III 1400 BCE Temple of Luxor 1400 BCE Mount Nebo

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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