This is intended to generate histomaps similar to John B. Sparks 1931 piece, titled “The Histomap: Four Thousand Years of World History.”

I was inspired by this post asking how to procedurally generate a world history and represent it in the form of the histomap.

To simulate an early history I interpret Peter Turchin's model for Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies

Controls:

You can click to drag the chart up and down.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
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AuthorClassicwook
GenreSimulation
TagsAlternate History, Generator, Procedural Generation

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Interesting! The graphic design is very nice. I am guessing there is no birth or death of states?

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Thanks! That's correct, states continue on forever, wither rising in power above others, or being enveloped by larger foes. This is currently sticking very close to Peter Turchin's model. But it would be a lot of fun to add more interactions between and within the states. Factions, Civil wars, Alliances, Heroes and notable people, catastrophic events, alien invasions??

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Hah alien invasions would be interesting...

Does the model you are exploring have variables/logic for the death and birth of states you can implement? I imagine the stability of the model may be less, but I can imagine a few ways to implement birth/death that may not cause instability (I haven't looked at the papers you link to). Mainly by using proportionality as your weights, e.g.  The larger the state, the more prone to fracture, the smaller the state, the more prone to death.