History tours

Ready-made stories that play themselves: the globe flies from place to place, the timeline moves from year to year, and a short narration explains what is happening. Good for class — any step can be shared as a link.

• The Mongol Empire in 3 minutes1206 – 1480 · How a steppe confederation reached from China to Hungary in half a century, split into khanates, and how Horde rule over Rus' ended on the Ugra.
• The Age of Discovery1405 – 1648 · From Zheng He's fleets to Dezhnev's strait: how in two centuries sailors linked every continent, and what it meant for the Americas.
• Rome: from city to empire753 BC – 476 · Twelve centuries in a few minutes: from the legendary founding of Rome through the Republic, the Punic Wars and Caesar to the Empire and its fall in the West.
• The Silk Road138 BC – 1877 · Fifteen centuries of roads between China and the Mediterranean: envoys and monks, silk and paper, Marco Polo and the plague — and how sea routes took over from the caravans.
• Rus': from Rurik to Ivan III862 – 1497 · Six centuries of Russian history: the Varangians, Kiev and Christianisation, the break-up into principalities, Horde rule, the rise of Moscow and Ivan III's united state.
• World War II1933 – 1945 · From the Nazi rise to power to Hiroshima: the key turning points of the most destructive war in history, in Europe, on the Eastern Front and in the Pacific.