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Travel across the Roman Empire in real time with ORBIS
- jvrossb 14y agoIs there something special about Roman times that left us with enough data to build these models or are other eras next?
- StuffMaster 14y agoOther eras required border crossings, vastly complicating things.
- newbie12 14y agoRoman times were unique. Writing was widespread and the continent-wide infrastructure was without precedent. At the peak of Pax Romana, one could travel generally without protection from southern England to Syria, speaking Latin or perhaps Greek the entire way. Much of Western civilization has its roots in ancient Rome, (and in turn Rome from Greece) so also I think there's more interest in the period than other places/times.
- gus_massa 14y agoThe Mongol Empire had a similar period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica
- fuzzythinker 14y agoThanks didn't know about the word "Pax". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana points to Pax_Mongolica (as gus_massa pointed out) among other Paxes.
- eevilspock 14y agoCould build a strategy game on top of this.
- jvrossb 14y agoExactly what I came back to this page to post after playing around with it a little.
- IsaacL 14y agoI've always thought that if I didn't study CS, and if I didn't care at all about mundane concerns like "career prospects", I'd have studied history. And I'm fascinated by projects like this that tie the two together. Anyone know of any open source projects similar to this that I could contribute to? I'd love to work on something like this is as a side project.
- rms25 14y ago" I didn't study CS, and if I didn't care at all about mundane concerns like "career prospects", I'd have studied history." Same here.