For teachers
Human Saga is a free, interactive atlas of world history — 163 empires, 1,280+ pivotal events, and a Daily Challenge, all on one live map. Here are three ways to bring it into your classroom.
Classroom uses
1. The born-year hook — make history personal
Ask students to enter their birth year (or a year you assign) and see what empires were still standing, what pivotal events were unfolding nearby, and how far that moment sits from the rest of the human story. It lands differently when it is their year.
2. Daily Challenge as a bell-ringer
A new history question every day — Gauntlet, When?, Chain, and Timeline rounds rotate through the week. Project it on the board at the start of class: students get a two-minute challenge before the lesson begins. No login, no accounts, always free.
3. Era hubs for curriculum units
Every empire and event is organised by era, region, and category. When you start a new unit — say, Early Modern Europe or the Classical world — send students to the matching era hub to browse what was happening across the globe at the same time. Helps them see the connections textbooks miss.
Embed the widget in your class site or LMS
Copy and paste this snippet into any webpage, Google Site, Canvas, or Schoology page. Change the year parameter to any year you are studying. The widget fetches live data and always links back to the full atlas.
<iframe src="https://humansaga.net/embed?year=1969" width="640" height="420" style="border:0;max-width:100%" title="Human Saga — 1969 in history" loading="lazy"></iframe>Tip: add a credit line like "Powered by humansaga.net" alongside the widget — it helps students find the full atlas and supports the project.
Live preview (1969):
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