A horizontal atlas of world history
WORLDLINES
History is not one road. It is many places living at once. Move across time; look down to compare worlds.
Read → across
Follow one place or region through a chapter, left to right.
Compare ↓ down
Events on the same vertical line happened at about the same time.
Slice ■ a year
Stop the clock and see who ruled where, in every place you are comparing.
Lanes
Compare
Long view
Fifteen thousand years, one block per state
Each row is a place and each block is the state that held it. The places you compare open up; the rest stay as thin strips. Blocks in full colour are the states ruling in the year you have frozen.
Year slice
The world in one year
Stop the clock. Each place shows the state that held it, where that year falls in the state’s life, what came before and after, and what happened nearby in time.