The map
History happens in places, and the place explains half of it: why a city fights over a strait, why an empire stops at a desert, why two peoples who never met invented the same thing at the same time. Here a region of the map lights up and you have to recognise what happened there. It is the same map Geography uses, with the same dots.
Where this sits
This is where the ladder starts: nothing is needed before it.
Exercises from this rung
Generated by the app, from easiest to hardest
Which of these happened here?
- Vasco da Gama reaches India by sea
- Pachacuti begins the Inca expansion
- Napoleon loses at Waterloo
- Julius Caesar is assassinated
Why Vasco da Gama reaches India by sea, 1498, in India. He opens the Cape route and breaks the spice monopoly. As the cost of carrying them falls, pepper goes from treasure to seasoning. In the same place, 134 years later: Building starts on the Taj Mahal, 1632.