Imperium

A stylised map of the Roman world. Move the scrubber and the shaded territory updates — Latium alone, then all Italy, the provinces won from Carthage and the Hellenistic kingdoms, Caesar's Gaul, Trajan's brief high-water mark, and the losses that followed. The territory is drawn from real time-sliced historical boundaries (historical-basemaps), clipped to true coastlines — so the frontier follows the Rhine, Danube and Euphrates, not a straight line.

Kingdom, Republic, Empire. Scroll sideways through more than 1,200 years. Square markers with a › open a full deep dive; round markers carry a short note on hover. A dashed ring flags an event whose date or detail is genuinely uncertain. The teal line marks wherever you have parked the map above.

Tip: on a phone, drag the timeline left and right. Tap a marker to open it.

Twenty-five events opened up: a short narrative, a map with the movements that mattered, a step-by-step sub-timeline, and — the point of the whole exercise — the words of the people who recorded them, translated, with every claim labelled by how firm the evidence is.