The Age of Discovery
1400–1700
From the treasure fleets of Zheng He and the Portuguese voyages along Africa to Columbus, Vasco da Gama, the first circumnavigation of the globe, Tasman and Dezhnev.
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A film is a story assembled from the same sourced events as the atlas and played on a 3D globe and a timeline. Pick the full story or a short version, read the chapters and events here, or press play on the map.
The Migration Period
280–700
From the Xiongnu rising in northern China and the Huns on the Black Sea steppe to the Vandals in Africa, the Franks in Gaul and the Avars, Slavs and Bulgars on the Danube: four centuries in which peoples were on the move across all of Eurasia.
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