History Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
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The Crusades, Year1095
The Crusades, Events
Standing
Concerns Year
Currently States 1095
The narrower and more common scholarly periodization runs from Urban II's November 1095 call at Clermont to the May 1291 fall of Acre. A broader camp of historians extends the crusading era well past 1291, to the Baltic crusades against pagan Prussia and Lithuania, the fifteenth century Hussite crusades within Bohemia, and Ottoman-era crusades into the sixteenth century, since the papacy kept preaching and granting crusading indulgences for wars far beyond the Holy Land. This entry records the narrower Levantine window, 1095, and names the broader camp rather than adopting it.
Source God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman
The Crusades, Death Toll, Low Estimate500000.000000
The Crusades, Events
Standing
Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate
Currently States 500000.000000
Historians of the crusades are explicit that they distrust any single precise figure spanning nearly two centuries of intermittent campaigns across three continents. This lower bound reflects the low end of the spread found across general reference estimates rather than a scholarly consensus count.
Source God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman
The Crusades, Death Toll, High Estimate2000000.000000
The Crusades, Events
Standing
Concerns Death Toll, High Estimate
Currently States 2000000.000000
The higher end of the same spread, contested by an order of magnitude against the lower bound, which is itself the point: no single total for the crusading era commands scholarly consensus. Indirect deaths, in the societies the campaigns disrupted, likely matched or exceeded combat deaths.
Source God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman
The Digital Revolution, Year1975
The Digital Revolution, Events
Standing
Concerns Year
Currently States 1975
The Digital Revolution has no single starting date. The choice of 1975 reflects the early spread of personal computing, but its roots extend back to mid twentieth century computing research, and its most transformative effects, including the internet and smartphones, arrived decades later.
Source The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
The Digital Revolution, Common NameThird Industrial Revolution
The Digital Revolution, Events
Standing
Concerns Common Name
Currently States Third Industrial Revolution
Some historians and economists use Third Industrial Revolution as a synonym for the Digital Revolution; others reserve that term specifically for mid-twentieth-century automation and electronics (roughly 1950s-1970s) and treat the internet/personal-computing era as a later, distinct phase. Not a settled usage.
Source The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
The Early Modern Period, Start Year1453
The Early Modern Period, Eras
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 1453
1453 is used here to align with the close of the medieval period, but many historians instead date the beginning of the early modern period to 1492, Columbus's first voyage, or to 1500 as a round marker.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Early Modern Period, End Year1789
The Early Modern Period, Eras
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1789
The French Revolution in 1789 is the most common marker for the end of the early modern period, though some historians prefer 1800 as a round number, or treat the transition to the following era as gradual rather than tied to any single event.
Source The New Cambridge Modern History
The Enlightenment, Start Year1715
The Enlightenment, Eras
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 1715
Traditionally dated from the death of Louis XIV in 1715, though the movement's intellectual roots reach back into the late seventeenth century and some historians extend the period into the early nineteenth century.
Source Wikipedia
The Enlightenment, End Year1789
The Enlightenment, Eras
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1789
Conventionally closed with the French Revolution in 1789, though this boundary is not universally accepted.
Source Wikipedia
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire, Year476
The Fugger Banking and Merchant House, Founded1487
The Fugger Banking and Merchant House, Organizations
Standing
Concerns Founded
Currently States 1487
Dated to Jakob Fugger's rise to control of the family business and its Tyrolean silver and Hungarian copper mining interests in the late 1480s; the family's mercantile activity in Augsburg predates this by a generation.
Source Wikipedia
The Gilded Age, Start Year1877
The Gilded Age, Eras
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 1877
Conventionally dated from the late 1870s, often anchored to the end of Reconstruction in 1877; historians vary on the exact starting point.
The Gilded Age, End Year1896
The Gilded Age, Eras
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1896
Conventionally closed in the late 1890s, sometimes extended to the 1900 election; historians vary on the exact end point.
The Great Zimbabwe Period, Start Year1220
The Great Zimbabwe Period, End Year1450
The Great Zimbabwe Period, Eras
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1450
Major stone construction ran from the 11th to 15th centuries and the site was not fully abandoned until the 16th or 17th century; 1450 marks the end of the kingdom's major building and imperial power rather than final abandonment.
Source Wikipedia: Great Zimbabwe
The Gupta Empire, CapitalPataliputra (reputed; disputed among historians)
The Gupta Empire, Polities
Standing
Concerns Capital
Currently States Pataliputra (reputed; disputed among historians)
Sources call Pataliputra the dynasty's reputed capital, but historians dispute whether it was in fact the Gupta capital, and even the dynasty's own homeland region is uncertain.
Source Wikipedia: Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire, Start Year250
The Gupta Empire, Polities
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 250
The empire's own lead dating is century level, mid third to mid sixth century CE; 250 and 550 are representative years within those centuries, not exact founding or end dates (matching the dating convention already used on the sibling Gupta Golden Age era entity, 270883).
Source Wikipedia: Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire, End Year550
The Gupta Empire, Polities
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 550
The empire's own lead dating is century level, mid third to mid sixth century CE; 250 and 550 are representative years within those centuries, not exact founding or end dates (matching the dating convention already used on the sibling Gupta Golden Age era entity, 270883).
Source Wikipedia: Gupta Empire
The Gupta Golden Age, Start Year250
The Gupta Golden Age, Eras
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 250
The empire's own lead dating is century level, mid third to mid sixth century CE; 250 and 550 are representative years within those centuries, not exact founding or end dates.
Source Wikipedia: Gupta Empire
The Gupta Golden Age, End Year550
The Gupta Golden Age, Eras
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 550
The empire's own lead dating is century level, mid third to mid sixth century CE; 250 and 550 are representative years within those centuries, not exact founding or end dates.
Source Wikipedia: Gupta Empire