Travel across the Roman Empire in real time with ORBIS(arstechnica.com)
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Travel across the Roman Empire in real time with ORBIS
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/how-across-the-roman-empire-in-real-time-with-orbis/
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Is there something special about Roman times that left us with enough data to build these models or are other eras next?
Roman 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.
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.
The Mongol Empire had a similar period:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica
Thanks didn't know about the word "Pax". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana points to Pax_Mongolica (as gus_massa pointed out) among other Paxes.
Other eras required border crossings, vastly complicating things.
Could build a strategy game on top of this.
Exactly what I came back to this page to post after playing around with it a little.
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.