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Always handy to give perspective on what else was going on

You know how many of the Civilization games have a replay option at the end of a game session? I'd love for something like that on a world scale to really visually see what kind of events happened in history in parallel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Wu0Q7x5D0 isn't a bad attempt, although obviously limited by available information.

Thank you, that is pretty close to what I had in mind. An interactive timeline that could be explored step-by-step would probably be even better.

... maybe the Wikimedia Foundation should spend some of their ridiculous surplus in donations on developing that.

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