Chronos — Interactive 3D Historical World Map

6 eras · 88 empires

Chronos

Early Modern Era

1451 AD — 1750 AD

Dominant empires

Songhai Empire1464 AD — 1591 AD
Aztec Empire1451 AD — 1521 AD
Inca Empire1451 AD — 1533 AD
Spanish Empire1492 AD — 1750 AD
Portuguese Empire1415 AD — 1750 AD
Dutch Republic (VOC)1602 AD — 1750 AD
British Empire (early)1607 AD — 1750 AD
Kingdom of France1534 AD — 1750 AD
Ottoman Empire1451 AD — 1750 AD
Safavid Empire1501 AD — 1736 AD
Ming / Qing Dynasties1451 AD — 1750 AD
Mughal Empire1526 AD — 1750 AD
Tsardom of Russia1547 AD — 1750 AD
Swedish Empire1611 AD — 1721 AD
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth1569 AD — 1750 AD

Global population

~600 million

Macro-changes

European sails cross the oceans. The first capitalist world-system is born: Silver from Potosí, spices from the Moluccas, African slaves on American plantations. Demographic devastation of indigenous American populations (90% drop in a century). Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment.

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Early Modern Era

2500 BC2026 AD