Journeys
Nine journeys on the map of their own years. Scrub along the route and the borders change under the traveller's feet; at each stop, what happened there, and where a public-domain text gives them, the traveller's own words.
334-323 BCE
A Macedonian king marches to the edge of the known world
Pella Babylon
218-202 BCE
A Carthaginian army crosses the Alps into Italy
New Carthage Zama
629-645
A Chinese monk goes west for the scriptures
Chang'an Home to Chang'an
c. 1000
Norse sailors reach America
Brattahlid Home to Greenland
1271-1295
A Venetian merchant at the court of the Great Khan
Venice Home to Venice
1325-1354
A Moroccan scholar sees the whole Islamic world
Tangier Fez
1405-1433
The treasure fleets of the Ming reach Africa
Nanjing Calicut again
1519-1522
The first voyage around the Earth
Seville Around the world
1831-1836
A young naturalist sails around the world
Plymouth Falmouth
The routes are the waypoints the sources give, joined by straight lines; the borders are the atlas's snapshots nearest each year. On the atlas itself, the Stories menu plays the same journeys over the full map.