−3500 → 2100
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Antiquity
Medieval
Mercantile
Industrial
Atomic & Digital
Networked
Post-Geography
3000 BCE
2000 BCE
1000 BCE
1 CE
500
1000
1450
1700
1900
2000
2050
2100
Mesopotamia (Uruk · Ur · Nippur)
Babylon
Luoyang
Athens
Alexandria
Chang'an (Xi'an)
Rome
Constantinople
Baghdad
Cairo
Venice
Florence
Antwerp
Amsterdam
London
Paris
Manchester
Berlin
Boston
New York
Bell Labs (Murray Hill)
Los Alamos
Tokyo
Silicon Valley
Singapore
Seoul
Seattle
Shenzhen
Hsinchu (TSMC)
Beijing
Dubai
The Compute Empire
Mars Engineering Civilization
Hover any bar to surface its dossier · −3500 → 2100 CE