Scenarios
On Atlynx, visualize the evolution of the globe through space and time
Thucydides' Trap
“It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable.” - Thucydides
Hannibal at the Gates
"You know how to win, Hannibal; you do not know how to use a victory." - Livy
The Ides of March
"But Caesar, as it happened, was on his way to the senate, and when he saw the soothsayer, he greeted him jokingly and said: Well, the Ides of March are come; to which the soothsayer replied softly: Ay, they are come, but they are not gone." — Plutarch
Pax Romana
"He so beautified it [Rome] that he could justly boast that he had found it built of brick and left it in marble." — Suetonius
Fall of the West
"In one city the whole world has perished." - St. Jerome
The First Crusade
"God wills it!"
The New World
"There will come an epoch late in time when Ocean will loosen the bonds of the world and the earth lie open in its vastness, when Tethys will disclose new worlds and Thule not be the farthest of lands." — Seneca, Medea
The Eagle's Apex
“I saw the Emperor – this soul of the world – go out from the city to survey his reign ; it is a truly wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrating on one point while seated on a horse, stretches over the world and dominates it.” - Hegel
Britannia rules the waves
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist." - Queen Victoria
Europe's Last Summer
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time." - Sir Edward Grey
The Storm Breaks
"The Polish Army has been beaten, but the Polish Nation has not." - General Władysław Sikorski
The Turning Tide
トラ・トラ・トラ！
Winds of Change
"The Sputniks prove that the Soviet socialist system is a more advanced system... it has outstripped the most developed capitalist country, the USA." - Nikita Khrushchev
The Modern Day
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." — Volodymyr Zelenskyy