Investigate moves onto the timeline
- Timeline
- Investigate
An investigation is now the same timeline with one question asked of it, and every link shows the words it was read from.
- Investigate is now a mode of the timeline rather than a screen of its own: the question sits above the plot, only the rows that answer it stay, curves join them to the subject, and the reading fills the side rail.
- The rows a question reaches are drawn whatever the importance floor says, and host states stay as a faint ground marked “where it happened, not a cause”.
- Click a link to see its evidence: the sentence it was read from with the causal phrase underlined, the section it came from, and how close in time the two things are.
- Causes are now read from an article’s Background, Causes and Origins sections, and from its Decline and Fall sections when you ask why a state ended.
- What the article names: every other entry an article mentions, listed apart from its causes.
- Argued claims: where Wikidata and Wikipedia are silent on a contested cause, the atlas states the argument with the evidence for and against it. The first asks whether the Thera eruption ended Minoan Crete.
- Answers the atlas does not hold as entries of its own, such as French Madagascar, are now drawn on the timeline too.
- Type a year into the timeline or the map: “480 BCE” and “-480” both work. The timeline now ends at 2025.