HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Everything was happening at the same time

While Napoleon conquered Europe, the Qing Dynasty was at its peak, and the United States was just 20 years old. Eras is the first tool that makes that visible.

01The Idea

Click any event. See the whole world
at that moment.

We learn history as isolated chapters — Ancient Greece, Imperial China, Colonial America. But these happened simultaneously. Eras puts them on the same map, at the same time, for the first time.

Battle of Marathon
490 BC · MARATHON, GREECE

10,000 Athenian soldiers defeat a Persian force twice their size, preserving Western civilisation at its most fragile moment.

Meanwhile, across the world
Confucius teaching in Lu
China2 yrs earlier
Persian Wars begin
Persia1 yr later
HAPPENING IN THE SAME DECADE
Olmec decline at La Venta
Mexico8 yrs earlier
HAPPENING IN THE SAME GENERATION
Nok iron smelting
Nigeria15 yrs earlier
02How It Works

Pick a year. Explore the world.
Go as deep as you want.

01

Drag the timeline

Scrub from 3000 BC to today. Glowing markers appear and disappear as history unfolds. Or type any year to jump instantly.

02

Click any marker

A panel slides in with what happened, where, and why it mattered. Then see what was happening simultaneously on the other side of the world.

03

Go deeper

Read the Wikipedia extract. Request an AI summary. Follow causal threads that connect events across centuries and continents.

03What Makes Eras Different

History as it actually happened —
simultaneously, globally, causally

Simultaneity

See what was happening across the world at exactly the same moment. While Rome burned, Han China was inventing paper. Eras makes that visible.

Living Map

Borders shift as you move through time. Constantinople becomes Istanbul. Persia becomes Iran. The map reflects the world as it actually was.

Three Depths

A curated snapshot. A Wikipedia extract. An AI-generated narrative. Go as deep as your curiosity takes you, at your own pace.

Causal Threads

SOON

See how events caused other events across decades. The Fall of Constantinople triggered the Renaissance. History is a web, not a line.

People Timelines

SOON

Follow a historical figure across their entire life. See every event Napoleon touched, from Corsica to Saint Helena, plotted across the world.

Quests

Guided journeys through history. The Rise of Islam. The Age of Exploration. The Road to WW1. Learn through narrative, not memorisation.

04Early Access

Be first to explore

Eras is in early development. Join the list and be the first to know when it launches — and help shape what it becomes.

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