London developed slowly in Roman times, getting its first city walls around the year 200AD. The city stayed within these walls until after the Medieval period.

The Mayan city of Tikal at its peak had about 90 thousand inhabitants and was a leading city in the Mayan region.

The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Empires flourish in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the third millennium BC.

Russia grows rapidly in the 1600's under the Romanov Tsars, including territory gained from the Russo-Polish War that concluded in 1667.

The Indo-European peoples begin to branch into the Thracian, Illyrian, Celtic, and Germanic peoples in third millennium BC Europe.

The Three Kingdoms of Korea (Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje) dominated the peninsula and parts of Manchuria from the first through sixth centuries AD.

Venice reaches the height of its power with a network of territories and trade routes stretching across the eastern Mediterranean.

China at the end of the Han period splits in the Three Kingdoms after the last Han emperor is deposed in 220AD.

China in the Warring States Period on the eve of the rise of the state of Qin.

The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, comes under siege by Hernan Cortes and the Spanish Army.

Amsterdam grows rapidly, digging more canals, after the Zuiderzee floods open a shipping channel to the North Sea.

Back in 1200BC, at the time of the Trojan War, the plains we see today around Troy had not yet silted in.

Rome builds the Appian Way to support moving legions south to fight the Samnite War.

The Ancient Olympics were held here at the sanctuary at Olympia from 776BC to 394AD.

The Great Fire of London consumes many of the wooden structures in the city.

South Sudan declares its independence after a referendum, becoming the world's youngest nation.

Captain John Smith establishs Jamestown near Werowocomoco, the Powhatan capital and home of Pocahontas.

Christopher Columbus is about to arrive in the New World with the ships the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

The Khmer Empire in southeast Asia builds the great temple Angkor Wat and a new capital city.

The Aztec Empire before the arrival of Cortez and the Spanish.

The city-states of Ancient Greece, led by Athens and Sparta, face the might of Xerxes and the Persian Empire.

Washington, DC grows as the Potomac River is filled to expand the National Mall.

The English establish the colony of Roanoke in the New World, though it will survive only a few years.

The Battle of Shiloh rages during the American Civil War to capture the rail junction at Corinth.

Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The English Civil War shows how the conflict spread across Great Britain.

Tudor England sees much turmoil in the royal house under King Henry VIII.

The Roman Republic overthrows its Etruscan king and conquers its Latin neighbors.

The U.S. begins its territorial expansion across the North American continent.

The U.S. Civil War starts with the secession of South Carolina.

Early Medieval Britain emerges in the wake of the Roman withdrawl.

The classical Dark Ages in the time of the Trojan War.

The slow decline of the Byzantine Empire from the 6th to 14th centuries.

London developed slowly in Roman times, getting its first city walls around the year 200AD. The city stayed within these walls until after the Medieval period.

The Mayan city of Tikal at its peak had about 90 thousand inhabitants and was a leading city in the Mayan region.

The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Empires flourish in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the third millennium BC.

Russia grows rapidly in the 1600's under the Romanov Tsars, including territory gained from the Russo-Polish War that concluded in 1667.

The Indo-European peoples begin to branch into the Thracian, Illyrian, Celtic, and Germanic peoples in third millennium BC Europe.

The Three Kingdoms of Korea (Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje) dominated the peninsula and parts of Manchuria from the first through sixth centuries AD.

Venice reaches the height of its power with a network of territories and trade routes stretching across the eastern Mediterranean.

China at the end of the Han period splits in the Three Kingdoms after the last Han emperor is deposed in 220AD.

China in the Warring States Period on the eve of the rise of the state of Qin.

The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, comes under siege by Hernan Cortes and the Spanish Army.