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Duration
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Ninety-four civilisations. Five millennia. Each trajectory scaled to its own peak — so you can compare not absolute size, but the shape of a civilisation's story. Use the controls below to filter by region, era, or search for a specific empire.
Navigate five millennia of human civilisation. Each line represents an empire — use the region tabs and era selector to filter, or search by name. Press ▶ to animate the timeline.
Power scores are normalised indices (0–10) across six dimensions: territory, military capacity, economic output, administrative coherence, cultural influence, and geopolitical reach. Each trajectory is drawn from peer-reviewed sources cited in the Empire Profiles.
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Select a region tab and an era above to reveal the trajectories of civilisations across time.