River of History

River of History is a pocket atlas of the human past—a vertical ink-wash timeline that unrolls six thousand years of civilization as a single, readable scroll. ■ Eight threads, one view Civilizations · Religions & Thought · Science & Technology · Wars · Arts & Culture · Economy & Trade. From Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China to Greece, Rome, Islam, the Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia; from the Hundred Schools, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam to Western philosophy; from mathematics and physics to the industrial and information revolutions—60 topics, 344 historical periods, over 2,000 key events and nearly three hundred short biographies—the grand history of rulers alongside the everyday history of how ordinary people lived. ■ The World At Once Drag a single slider across all of history to cut into any one year and see what all eight threads were doing at that moment—in the 5th century BCE, Confucius, the Buddha and Socrates were near-contemporaries; around 1000 CE, Song China, the Abbasids, Byzantium and the Maya stood side by side. History read not down the page, but across it. ■ Four layers, from overview to source Each section opens with an Overview essay; dozens of pivotal periods carry an In-Depth commentary on why they were hinges of history; over a hundred periods include a From-the-Source quotation that lets you touch primary texts—the Analects, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, Euclid's Elements—directly. People, events and ideas are cross-linked throughout. ■ Simplified · Traditional · English Cycle between all three with one tap, with high-quality conversion built on OpenCC. ■ Offline & private Fully offline. No personal data collected, no ads, no tracking. Images come from Wikimedia Commons (public domain or freely licensed). ■ Designed for reading An ink-river backdrop, a calligraphic regular-script typeface, vermilion seals, adjustable text size, light/dark themes, and the guqin piece "Flowing Water" as optional background music—crafted for long, immersive reading on a phone. Bookmark what draws you and return to that moment anytime.