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Articles on world history: how the map of the world changed, who ruled at the same time, what happened in each century. Everything here can be opened on the globe.

• World map by year: how borders changed over timeWhat the political map of the world looked like in 1 AD, 1000, 1500 or 1914 — and why it was redrawn so often.
• World history timeline: major events by century and regionThe major events of world history in one table — by century and by region, so you can see what was happening at the same time in different parts of the world.
• BC and AD: how to count centuriesWhat BC and AD mean, why 1900 belongs to the 19th century, and how to count centuries and millennia before Christ.
• The largest empires in historyWhich empire was the largest in history, how much land the British and Mongol empires covered, and what their borders looked like on the map.
• Map of the ancient world: civilizations from Sumer to RomeWhere the first civilizations were, how the ancient world grew from Mesopotamia to Rome and Han China — and what was happening at the same time at either end of it.
• World War I map: Europe in 1914 and after the warWhat Europe looked like on the eve of World War I, where the fronts ran, who fought whom — and how the map of the world changed after 1918.
• Periods of history: the main historical eras with datesHow historians divide the past into eras, where the boundaries lie, when the Middle Ages began and ended — and how the periods look on a timeline.

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