Play Caesar: Travel Ancient Rome with Stanford’s Interactive Map

Play Caesar: Travel Ancient Rome with Stanford’s Interactive Map – Open Culture

Olmsted, Mildred Scott (Peace Activists)
The devastation of war on the population, particularly in famine-wracked Bavaria, led her to pursue a life of peace activism. During World War I Olmsted joined the American Friends Service Committee to provide relief to war-torn France and Germany.

Scholars of ancient history and IT experts at Stanford University have collaborated to create a novel way to study Ancient Rome. ORBIS, a geospatial network model, allows visitors to experience the strategy behind travel in antiquity. (Find a handy tutorial for using the system on the Web and YouTube). The ORBIS map includes about 750 mostly urban settlements of the Roman period. Users of the model can select a point of origin and destination for a trip and then choose from a number of options to determine either the cheapest, fastest or shortest route. Select river or open sea transport for the cheapest route. Pick road travel by pack animal or wagon for the shortest, but most expensive, trip. In creating ORBIS, historians used ancient maps and records along with modern-day weather information and results from experiments sailing in ancient-style ships to calculate the travel conditions of 2,000 years ago.

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