Take a moment to familiarise yourself with the controls, then close this popup window.
🔹 Use the slider at the bottom of the page to adjust the displayed year.
🔹 Use the play controls to quickly increment the year and animate the map through time.
🔹 Click polities on the map to add them to or remove them from the legend.
🔹 Some polities have Seshat pages reachable with double click.
The settings gear (⚙️) can be used to access additional controls:
🔹 Use the "Enter year" box to quickly navigate to a specific year.
🔹 Use the "Play rate" box to set the rate of the animation (and the skip controls increment).
🔹 Use the variable dropdown to color polities by different Seshat variables.
🔹 Use the opacity slider to adjust the transparency of the polity shapes.
🔹 Use the "Choose base map" dropdown to switch between different base maps.
🔹 Learn more about the polity border choices.