::: Cinematic Atlas :::
EMPIRES OF HISTORY
IN FILM & SERIES
A complete cinematic atlas, from earliest kingdoms to modern empires
1550 BC - 1997 AD
↓ Middle East Dominance ↓
↓ Era of Great Empires ↓
↓ Eastern Roman Continuation ↓
↓ Ottoman Conquest (1453) ↓
↙ Conquered by Alexander (330 BC)
↘ Annexed by Rome (146 BC)
↙ Claimed Roman Catholic Legacy
↙ Modeled Imperial Ambition
↙ Napoleonic Vision (1804)
↙ Declared Third Rome (1547)
→ Byzantine Levant Conquered →
↙ Sack of Baghdad (1258)
↓ Timurid Ancestry (1526) ↓
THE MAIN SUCCESSION
WESTERN FORKS & OFFSHOOTS
CONCURRENT & INDEPENDENT
Egyptian Empire
c.1550 - 30 BC
Achaemenid Persia
550 - 330 BC
Macedonian Empire
336 - 323 BC
Roman Empire
753 BC - 476 AD
Byzantine Empire
476 - 1453 AD
Ottoman Empire
1299 - 1922 AD
Spanish Empire
1492 - 1975 AD
British Empire
1583 - 1997 AD
Russian Empire
1721 - 1917 AD
Napoleon's Empire
1804 - 1815 AD
Maurya Empire
322 - 185 BC
Han Dynasty
206 BC - 220 AD
Mongol Empire
1206 - 1368 AD
Mughal Empire
1526 - 1857 AD
Islamic Caliphates
632 - 1258 AD
Viking Age
793 - 1066 AD
Japanese Imperial Age
1868 - 1945 AD
Main succession trunk
Fork / successor empire
Concurrent empire
solid lines = trunk and forks
dashed lines = concurrent