Connections that explain
- Map
- Investigate
- Rulers and reigns
- Cities and places
An entry’s connections are now read from recorded statements and sorted by cause and effect, and the map gains the peoples who lived between the states.
- An entry’s connections are read from Wikidata’s statements and sorted into what led to it, what happened during it, and what came of it. Guesses from nearness in time and place are gone: an entry with no recorded connections says so.
- Each connection says what kind of claim it is: recorded as a cause, linked by a statement such as “part of” or “replaced by”, read from the article, or a coincidence in time and place.
- Causes read from Wikipedia’s own prose, each shown with the sentence it came from, so a wrong reading can be spotted at a glance.
- Each state names its rulers, read from the office the state itself names, the best known first.
- Names inside an article are links, and every dated connection opens, even to things the atlas does not hold as entries.
- A campaign’s battles are nested under it, so the Mongol Empire’s sieges of Ryazan and Kyiv appear under the invasion that contains them.
- On the map: 1,665 named ancient peoples and regions from the Barrington Atlas (750 BCE–640 CE), and 885 ethnic groups from a 1964 survey, each drawn only across the period its source describes.
- Trade corridors grow from 45 to 184.
- A selected marker stands out in amber, and the status bar says how many states, markers and corridors the map actually drew.