Living Worlds
A Roman street about 100 CE: apartment blocks above shops, a fountain fed by an aqueduct, people of many origins in tunics, donkeys and porters.

Age · 100–700 CE

Classical worlds

Cities of many languages, counting by place.

Observed

Evidence

Places, dates and measured rates, from sources.

Inferred

Parameters

The rates and structures fitted to that evidence.

Simulated

Behaviour

Lives stepped month by month under those rates.

Generated

Outcome

Each life's story, told as a composite, never a real person.

Meanwhile

3 worlds, side by side.

Each keeps its own time. None is ranked above another.

A Roman street about 100 CE: apartment blocks above shops, a fountain fed by an aqueduct, people of many origins in tunics, donkeys and porters. Rome, about 100 CEThe Greek and Roman WorldEvery street speaks more than one language. A rooftop in Pataliputra at dusk where a young astronomer and students mark the rising stars, the Ganges below. Pataliputra, 499 CEPlace ValueA digit's place gives it its worth. The plastered market plaza of Tikal with painted temple platforms, women selling maize drink and woven cloth. Tikal, about 700 CEThe PlazaWhatever is made is traded in the plaza.
A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

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