Each colored line is a place, each block an era. Move the white beam across time to see what was happening everywhere at once. Tap or hover any era for the story.
Dates are simplified for placement, not precision: rising and falling empires overlap in reality, and deep-antiquity dates (Gojoseon, Xia, the Vedas, Stonehenge) are legendary or contested. Tap or hover any era for the real story.