Historical Maps

Every place below is an entity in the knowledge graph, and every point was drawn from an article in this archive. Coordinates are curator-declared: a place without them is left off the map rather than guessed at, and the count of any such place is stated below the plot.

Places overlay

• Knights Templar (organization) — jerusalem evidence: site/content/articles/knights-templar-innovation-banking-codes-castles.md · b78985c8563e

Rule overlay

• Hohenzollern (dynasty) — prussia evidence: site/content/articles/frederick-the-great-military-reforms-prussian-army.md · 0421c1af51f0
• Medici (dynasty) — florence evidence: site/content/articles/banking-power-and-florentine-glory-the-rise-of-the-medici-bank.md · ae7ade6dfd41
• Augustus (person) — rome evidence: site/content/articles/engineering-empire-roman-roads-augustus.md · c3b770adbc4c
• Julius Caesar (person) — rome evidence: site/content/articles/caligulas-games-public-spectacle-social-order-imperial-rome.md · 06b155187c5b

Campaigns

A campaign is an ordered sequence of stages under one command, declared as such in the graph. The order is the one the source asserts, not one reconstructed from dates.

Second Punic War 218–202 BCE

1. Saguntum (place) evidence: site/content/articles/barcid-silver-mines-iberia-carthage-war-finance.md · 2036e35090fb
2. Trebia (battle) no coordinates evidence: site/content/articles/barcid-silver-mines-iberia-carthage-war-finance.md · 2036e35090fb
3. Trasimene (battle) no coordinates evidence: site/content/articles/barcid-silver-mines-iberia-carthage-war-finance.md · 2036e35090fb
4. Cannae (battle) no coordinates evidence: site/content/articles/barcid-silver-mines-iberia-carthage-war-finance.md · 2036e35090fb
5. Zama (battle) — 202 BCE no coordinates evidence: site/content/articles/barcid-silver-mines-iberia-carthage-war-finance.md · 2036e35090fb

5 stages · 1 placed · 4 without coordinates · Hannibal

Trade routes

A trade route is an ordered chain of nodes declared as trade, never a path inferred from proximity. A node without curated coordinates is named below the route rather than plotted.

Hanseatic League ca. 1200–1699

1. Lübeck — 53.8655, 10.6866 evidence: site/content/articles/the-hanseatic-league-shaping-northern-european-trade-in-the-medieval-era.md · e4b5e289ea82
2. Hamburg — 53.5511, 9.9937 evidence: site/content/articles/the-hanseatic-league-shaping-northern-european-trade-in-the-medieval-era.md · e4b5e289ea82
3. Bruges — 51.2093, 3.2247 evidence: site/content/articles/the-hanseatic-league-shaping-northern-european-trade-in-the-medieval-era.md · e4b5e289ea82
4. London — 51.5074, -0.1278 evidence: site/content/articles/the-hanseatic-league-shaping-northern-european-trade-in-the-medieval-era.md · e4b5e289ea82
5. Bergen — 60.3913, 5.3221 evidence: site/content/articles/the-hanseatic-league-shaping-northern-european-trade-in-the-medieval-era.md · e4b5e289ea82
6. Novgorod — 58.5215, 31.2755 evidence: site/content/articles/the-hanseatic-league-shaping-northern-european-trade-in-the-medieval-era.md · e4b5e289ea82

6 nodes plotted · 0 without coordinates

Empires

An empire is its own entity in the graph. Nothing here is inferred from a ruler alone: a polity has to have been declared and grounded before territory, rulers or dynasties can attach to it.

Byzantine Empire

• territory — Constantinople evidence: site/content/articles/nika-riots-532-constantinople-destruction-renewal.md
• ruler — Justinian I (532) evidence: site/content/articles/nika-riots-532-constantinople-destruction-renewal.md

Roman Empire

• territory — Rome evidence: site/content/articles/80.md
• ruler — Augustus (63 BCE–14 CE) evidence: site/content/articles/diocletians-price-edict-late-roman-economic-reform.md

Dynasties

Succession follows the order the corpus states, member to member. A member the sources place nowhere in the line is counted, not invented into a position.

Hohenzollern

1. Frederick William I evidence: site/content/articles/frederick-the-great-military-reforms-prussian-army.md
2. Frederick the Great — 1740–1786

2 members · 0 outside the line · ruled Prussia

Medici

1. Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici — 1360 evidence: site/content/articles/banking-power-and-florentine-glory-the-rise-of-the-medici-bank.md
2. Cosimo de’ Medici evidence: site/content/articles/banking-power-and-florentine-glory-the-rise-of-the-medici-bank.md
3. Lorenzo de’ Medici

3 members · 0 outside the line · ruled Florence

Timeline

Every dated entity in the graph, in chronological order. Precision is preserved exactly as it was recorded: a year stays a year, ca. stays ca., and an entity without a date is left out rather than placed at an invented moment.

1. Alexander the Great (person) — 356–323 BCE range
2. Second Punic War (campaign) — 218–202 BCE range
3. Zama (battle) — 202 BCE year
4. Julius Caesar (person) — 100–44 BCE range
5. Augustus (person) — 63 BCE–14 CE range
6. Justinian I (person) — 532 year
7. Charlemagne (person) — ca. 748–814 range · circa
8. Hanseatic League (trade-route) — ca. 1200–1699 range · circa
9. Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici (person) — 1360 year
10. Agincourt (battle) — 25 October 1415 day
11. Frederick the Great (person) — 1740–1786 range
12. Napoleon (person) — 1769–1821 range

12 dated · 31 without a date