Map of Power
Cities of lawgiving, capitals of empire, sites of revolution and liberation — from Babylon to Philadelphia, from Xianyang to New Delhi. Tap a marker for the story, tap the legend to filter.
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Ancient Order: Codes and Empires
Enlightenment and Revolution
Modern Rights and Liberation
The coastline data is shared with "History of Technology" (Natural Earth, longitude -130° to 145°, latitude 10° to 72°), covering Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, Europe, China, India, and North America; place coordinates use standard identifications of the figures’ main places of activity. A few places (such as South Africa) lie outside this range and are not on the map, though the figures still appear in the cards and graph.