476 CE
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Explore civilizations.
Empires, kingdoms and cultures from 3000 BCE to today, drawn where they stood.
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Watch borders change.
Drag the timeline and watch nearly fifty historical border maps give way to one another.
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Discover forgotten events.
Click anywhere on Earth to ask what was happening there, and when.
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Travel through time.
Press play on a thousand years, or follow a guided story across continents.
Today, across the centuries
Things in the Explore Earth dataset that began or ended on today’s date. Pick one to see the world as it was.
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