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Events and battles around this year
About this map and guide
Explore Roman history with Gaius, an AI guide built on AWS Bedrock with Amazon Nova. Drag the year slider from 753 BCE to 1453 CE, from the village on the Tiber to the fall of Constantinople, to watch Roman and Byzantine territory grow, split and shrink, switch on roads, aqueducts, temples, legion forts and battle sites, follow Hannibal, Scipio or Caesar across the map, and see how Cannae was won. Portraits of famous Romans, curated facts about people, politics, the army, culture, daily life, architecture, mythology and religion, and quizzes graded on the server. Ask Gaius a question and he brings up the map, the people and the events as you talk.
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Battle diagrams
Coastlines: Natural Earth (public domain). Place coordinates: Wikidata (CC0). Place, route, battle and monument descriptions are adapted from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each "Did you know?" fact links to its sources: ancient texts (Livy, Polybius, Plutarch, Suetonius, Cassius Dio and others, in translation on Perseus at Tufts and LacusCurtius at the University of Chicago) and Wikipedia. Dates and figures follow standard classical chronology. Provinces, routes and battle diagrams are simplified for teaching, not survey-accurate. Portraits come from Wikimedia Commons.