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Read selected story: Aksum: a kingdom linked to the Red Sea ↓5 source-linked mapped records in this selection. Counts describe this catalogue, not historical population or importance. 6 other records at this year have no supported map position; they remain available in the dated catalogue.
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Europe
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53 CE – 117 CE
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The Spanish-born soldier-emperor who pushed Rome to its greatest territorial extent, conquered Dacia in two grinding campaigns, and left the capital transformed in marble and monumental stone.
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76 CE – 138 CE
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The restless, Greece-obsessed emperor who spent half his reign travelling the empire, fortified its edges from Britain to Syria, rebuilt the Pantheon, and mourned his drowned lover Antinous with the grief of a god.
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121 CE – 180 CE
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The last of Rome's 'Five Good Emperors' — a Stoic philosopher-king who fought a frontier war for the last decade of his life and wrote a private journal of moral self-correction that has never gone out of print.
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Roman Empire at Peak
Trajan extending to Dacia and Mesopotamia. The Pantheon is being built. Latin literature in its Silver Age. Population of Rome over 1 million.
Broad historical snapshot; individual claims are not yet source-linked.
Middle East & Africa
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Kush developed royal and religious centres along the Nile south of Egypt. Meroë’s pyramids and monuments record an African kingdom with its own traditions.
Selected Kushite kingdom and royal-centre period
Rounded eighth-century BCE to fourth-century CE bounds for the selected phase; Kush has earlier history.
UNESCO · Meroë and the Kingdom of KushAksum connected the northern Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands with Red Sea trade. Coins, monumental stelae and Christian institutions illuminate different parts of its history.
Aksumite civilisation · first to eighth centuries CE
Century bounds describe a cultural period, not exact accession or collapse dates.
The Met · Aksumite civilisationNearby in time · within ±50 years
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Parthia · Kushan · Aksum
The Parthians on Rome's eastern flank. Aksum in Ethiopia trading across the Red Sea. Roman governors in Judaea after the destruction of the Temple.
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Asia
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Routes across Central Asia carried goods, people and religious ideas. This was a changing network of journeys and settlements, rather than one road joining two fixed endpoints.
Chang’an–Tianshan corridor · selected long span
A broad corridor history from the second century BCE to the sixteenth century CE; routes changed throughout.
UNESCO · Silk Roads corridorDate source not yet attached to this catalogue record.
In Gandhara, Buddhist art developed amid connections between South Asia, Central Asia and Mediterranean traditions. Kushan rule was one part of this wider cultural setting.
Gandhara under Kushan rulers · early centuries CE
Rounded first–third century CE phase, distinct from earlier migrations and later Buddhist art.
The Met · The Kushan EmpireNearby in time · within ±50 years
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Editorial fallback · snapshot c. 100 CE, not the selected year
Han China · Kushans
Han China at its territorial peak; paper has just been invented. Kushan empire bridges Central Asia and northern India. Buddhism spreading along the Silk Road.
Broad historical snapshot; individual claims are not yet source-linked.
Americas
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Tikal’s temples, palaces, inscriptions, reservoirs and surrounding settlements reveal a major Maya urban world. Its city history spans the BCE/CE boundary; Maya communities and cultures continued beyond this urban phase.
Selected Preclassic-to-Classic urban history
c. 600 BCE–900 CE follows UNESCO’s selected archaeological period, not the entire history of Maya peoples.
UNESCO · TikalTeotihuacan developed a large urban landscape with pyramids, avenues and residential compounds. It belongs to an earlier history than the later Aztec Empire.
City and monumental development · first to seventh centuries CE
Rounded first–seventh century city-development span; distinct from a narrower peak-period comparison.
UNESCO · TeotihuacanNearby in time · within ±50 years
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Maya Emerging · Teotihuacan
The Maya pre-classic transitioning to classic — first stelae and dated inscriptions. Teotihuacan is becoming the great city of central Mexico. Moche on the Peruvian coast.
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Oceania & Pacific
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Rome reaches its greatest extent under Trajan.
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Era context · dated catalogue bounds
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800 BCE – 500 CE
Greece, Rome, Persia, Han China, Mauryan India — the classical world.
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Empires of Marble & Silk
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The Pax Romana and the Han at the same moment. The Silk Road carries goods, plagues, and ideas across Eurasia. Christianity is a tiny Jewish sect.
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