In 334 BCE, as Alexander marched east, Qin Shi Huang had not yet been born. Two men who overturned their own worlds a hundred and thirty years apart — setting them side by side is what this timeline does.
The distance between them — about 130 yearsThe figures are illustrations based on later iconography
In 334 BCE, when Alexander broke Persia, iron was just spreading through the Korean peninsula and Gojoseon stood against the state of Yan. The peninsula of 221 BCE, the year Qin Shi Huang unified China, would pass to Wiman Joseon a generation later. Each sits in a different chapter of the textbook; laid out together on the same axis, they become one map.
This site sets the eras that films and series depict beside Korean, world and Christian history. Put the four timelines in any order you like.
Click an event card and what was happening on the other side of the world lights up beside it. Linked events are joined by arrows, so the connections are visible before you click.
Film · World · Korea · Christianity — drag the four timelines into whatever order you want. Put the two you care about next to each other and the years line up row by row. Uncheck any column you do not need.
Roaring Currents, Gladiator, The Odyssey — 37 titles arranged by the era they depict. Click one and the world, Korean and Christian history of that year open beside it, with a synopsis and a critical note.
Drag a column to move it — all four timelines, in whatever order you want.
Toyotomi's unification of Japan and England's victory over the Armada, set against the invasion of Korea in 1592.
Early modern · Reformation and JoseonLuther's Ninety-five Theses of 1517 and the purge of Jo Gwang-jo in 1519 — two reforms, two very different fates.
Modern · 1919 and the worldThe March First Movement and the Provisional Government, read alongside the end of World War I and the call for self-determination.