Five thousand years of civilization, made interactive.
Interactive history. 63 civilizations. 4 analytical lenses.
Travel 5,000 years across 63 civilizations — their key figures, their art, their technologies, on an interactive globe and timeline.
Don't just learn what happened. Understand why, through four scholarly lenses: Thermodynamics, Structural-Demographic Theory, Karatani's Modes of Exchange, Mandate of Heaven.
Built for explorers, teachers, researchers — and for students who want to discover history beyond the schoolbook. Grounded in cliodynamics. Augmented by Anthropic's Claude.
Explorer
Browse civilizations across 6 continental regions.
Explore civilizations →Timeline
Pan and zoom across 5,000 years.
Open the timeline →History Lab
Apply four scholarly frameworks to history.
Enter the History Lab →All 63 civilizations
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Aboriginal Australian Cultures
- Achaemenid Persian Empire
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Assyrian Empire
- Aztec Empire
- Babylonian Empire
- British Mandate Palestine
- Byzantine Empire
- Carolingian Empire
- East Germany (DDR)
- European Union
- Fatimid Caliphate
- French Revolution
- German Empire
- Ghana Empire
- Great Zimbabwe
- Gupta Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Holy Roman Empire
- Inca Empire
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Khmer Empire
- Kingdom of Aksum
- Kingdom of Benin
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of Kush
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Kushan Empire
- Mali Empire
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Mauryan Empire
- Maya Civilization
- Minoan Civilization
- Mongol Empire
- Mughal Empire
- Mycenaean Greece
- Nazi Germany
- Olmec Civilization
- Ottoman Empire
- People's Republic of China
- Qin Dynasty
- Reunified Germany
- Roman Empire
- Roman Republic
- Russian Empire
- Sasanian Empire
- Second Spanish Republic
- Seleucid Empire
- Shang Dynasty
- Song Dynasty
- Songhai Empire
- Soviet Union
- Spanish Empire
- Tang Dynasty
- Umayyad Caliphate
- United Nations
- United States of America
- Viking Age
- Weimar Republic
- West Germany (BRD)
- Zhou Dynasty