· v1.7.0
The ground under the map through time, the map in 3D, and charts where there were sentences
- Map
- Theories
- Rulers and reigns
- Design and reading
The map can now show what the ground was like, not only who held it: how people used the land at every step from 3000 BCE, what the climate of each millennium let grow, how much rain fell against today, and how warm it was against the twentieth century — each a model or a reconstruction that says which, and at which step. The relief can be shaded or tilted into 3D. And every chart in the atlas is now a bordered card of its own, with new ones where the panels used to say it in sentences.
- A Ground & climate panel on the map. Land use (HYDE 3.2.1): settlements, villages, croplands and rangelands at every step from 3000 BCE, fading from one step to the next as the year moves — in 3000 BCE the farmed land is a thread along the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Nile and almost nowhere else. Vegetation and rainfall (Beyer, Krapp & Manica 2020), every thousand years: the Sahara and Arabia read wetter than today at the start of the atlas, the tail of the green Sahara.
- Temperature against the twentieth century: the regional reconstructions of the PAGES 2k Consortium inside the regions they cover — Europe a cold blue through the Little Ice Age — and the Holocene latitude bands of Kaufman et al. everywhere else, one source per place, each named on hover. A chart of temperature through time with the climate episodes the literature names, from the 4.2 kiloyear event to the Maunder Minimum, each with its works.
- Where farming began: the eleven independent centres of domestication, from the Fertile Crescent to eastern North America, each with what was domesticated there, when, and the studies that date it.
- Relief: shaded, or the map tilted into 3D over today’s terrain, so the Zagros stand behind Mesopotamia and the Alps behind Venice.
- Every chart is now a bordered card with what it shows, what it is drawn against, an “i”, its source, and its numbers as a table one click away.
- New in a state’s panel: the ground it held and the city at its seat over its whole span, with its wars and risings marked; where it stands among all states five ways, each counted only over the states that carry the measure; and another state of your choosing aligned at the founding of each.
- The reign ribbon: every reign as long as it lasted, coloured by how it ended, wearing the ruler’s face, each one opening the ruler.
- Each theory’s rates as a chart — with its conditions, without, and the control — by century and by region.
- The faces of a year, from the status bar: everyone alive at the cursor, grouped by state, with their age that year. And What is here: the window as a treemap of regions, families and kinds, each cell opening its region with that family alone.
- The chronicle wears the flag a state flew, a person’s face or the kind’s sign on every row, with a heading per century, and can sit beside the timeline in place of the list at the cursor.
- What’s new can be read by date, by topic and by words, and a filtered view of it can be sent as a link.