Centuries
1st century BCE
The Roman Republic spent this century destroying itself from the inside. Wealth from conquered lands pooled in fewer and fewer hands, enslaved people…
1st century
Rome ran the Mediterranean world as a single empire for the first time. Augustus and his successors built roads, aqueducts and a professional army…
11th century
Europe reorganized itself around castles, knights and a newly powerful papacy, while the Islamic world and Song China stayed richer and more learned.…
12th century
Crusader kingdoms in the Levant survived on reinforcements from Europe, which meant a constant traffic of knights, pilgrims and merchants between the…
13th century
Mongol armies under Genghis Khan and his sons conquered more land than any empire before them, from northern China to Hungary, while the rulers who…
14th century
A crowded, confident Europe was hit by famine, war and plague in quick succession. Edward III of England claimed the French crown in 1337 and started…
15th century
Two technologies redrew the map: Ottoman cannon that could shatter ancient walls, and Gutenberg's movable type that could print any book cheaply.…
16th century
Martin Luther's protest split Western Christianity into competing churches, and the split turned violent across Germany, France and the Netherlands.…
17th century
Central Europe burned through the Thirty Years' War while England executed its king and experimented with republic and restoration. Meanwhile the…
18th century
Enlightenment writers argued that kings, priests and traditions had to justify themselves by reason, and their readers took the argument into the…
19th century
Steam power, railways and factories reorganized work and cities within a single lifetime, and European empires used the industrial lead to colonize…
20th century
Two world wars killed tens of millions and redrew every border, then the United States and the Soviet Union faced off in a Cold War fought through…
21st century
The internet moved from offices into pockets and then into nearly every interaction, with smartphones, social media and streaming reorganizing work…
22nd century
Nobody has lived here yet, so every story from the 22nd century is a wager about where we are heading: off-world colonies and machine minds, or ruins…
Decades
1st century (0–99)
11th century (1000–1099)
12th century (1100–1199)
13th century (1200–1299)
14th century (1300–1399)
15th century (1400–1499)
16th century (1500–1599)
17th century (1600–1699)
18th century (1700–1799)
19th century (1800–1899)
20th century (1900–1999)
21st century (2000–2099)
Also mapped
Tip: every guide has an Open on the StoryTerra map button — it loads the main app with that exact time period already set, just as if you had picked it in the time picker yourself.