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Follow history videos on a map

History videos jump between cities, rivers and empires faster than you can picture them. Map Along puts every place on a live map next to the video, in sync with playback, and draws the borders as they were at the time.

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Thessaly, Thebes and Macedonia on the map, with 335 BC borders, while Epic History's Alexander the Great plays.

What Map Along shows you

Borders through time

When the narrator talks about the Byzantine Empire in AD 600, you see the Byzantine Empire in AD 600, not modern Turkey. A year badge follows the story, from 331 BC to today.

Routes and campaigns

Marches, voyages, migrations and trade routes are drawn as arrows from start to end, labelled with who moved and when, like Alexander the Great's march from Egypt to Mesopotamia.

Ancient places, found

Cities that changed their names or no longer exist are placed where they stood, with a card saying what they were and a Wikipedia link.

Click to jump

Every place is listed with its timestamp. Click one to jump the video back to the moment it came up.

Great for

Ancient Rome
The Silk Road
Alexander the Great
The Byzantine Empire
The Mongol Empire
Ancient Egypt
The Age of Exploration
Medieval Europe

Popular history videos to try it on

Some of the most-watched history videos on YouTube. Open one, click Map this video, and press play.

The Greatest General in History? Alexander the Great (All Parts)Epic History · 29M views
Trace Alexander's campaign from Macedonia through Persia and Egypt to India.
The First Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 1)OverSimplified · 37M views
Rome and Carthage fight over Sicily and the western Mediterranean.
How Rome Conquered Greece - Roman History DOCUMENTARYKings and Generals · 20M views
Macedon, the Greek cities and the Hellenistic kingdoms as Rome pushes east.
Mongols Season 1 Full - from Genghis to KublaiKings and Generals · 13M views
From the Mongolian steppe to China, Central Asia and Persia.
The History of the Ottoman Empire (All Parts) - 1299 - 1922Knowledgia · 10M views
Six centuries across Anatolia, Constantinople, the Balkans and the Middle East.
The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash Course World History #9CrashCourse · 6.2M views
Trade routes from China across Central Asia to the Mediterranean.

How it works

Install Map Along from the Chrome Web Store.
Open a YouTube video and click Map this video above the recommendations.
Press play. Places light up on the map the moment they're mentioned.

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