Atlases

Interactive views you can poke at

A time-scrubbed map, a network you can pivot, a layered chart with toggles. Each atlas lets you find the same period or place across multiple lenses, with the data behind it one click away.

Knowledge graph Knowledge graph of economic thinkers, schools, works, and crises — clusters coloured by era from Ancient & Medieval through Modern Pluralism

History of Economic Thought

Who influenced whom, Aquinas through Acemoglu

80 thinkers 1700, present Lineage · School · Debate
Choropleth World choropleth of GDP per capita in 1950, with year scrubber, region highlighter, and a flat/globe toggle

GDP per Capita Through History

Scrub from 1820 to today, flat or globe

200 years ~190 countries Year slider · Globe toggle
Trade-route map Trade-route map showing routes, cities, and eras across Silk Road and Atlantic systems

Trade Routes & Cities

Routes, cities, and eras, Silk Road and Atlantic

2,000+ years Silk Road · Atlantic Compare view
Language map World map of language families and dispersal arcs from -10,000 to present

Language Families

Family geography and dispersal arcs, -10,000 to today

World · Europe · East Asia Per-language detail
Layered chart Layered chart explorer comparing London, Beijing, Delhi, Istanbul on welfare ratio, urbanization, GDP per capita, and agricultural productivity from 1500 to 1820

Pre-1820 Cross-Core Explorer

London, Beijing, Delhi, Istanbul, 1500 to 1820

4 cores 4 metrics Toggle · Overlay
Narrated campaign Campaign map of northern Germany in 1631 — Protestant and Catholic camps as striped ground, the Oder river and its supply corridor in blue, the Swedish advance as a gold line

Gustavus Adolphus 1630–32

Where the bread can float, a narrated campaign, decided by rivers

5½ min narrated Scrub or play Watersheds · supply corridors
More atlases will appear here as they ship. Each one lives inside a topic and earns a place here once it’s ready to read end-to-end.