Historical Simulations by

History Dynamics™

Introduction

It is possible to create simulations that represent the changing power of societies overtime, as well as other traits, factors and effects. Such simulations can help illustrate your historical ideas and make your works visually more interesting.

Although such simulations are often only crude approximations, they can help indentify underlying causes, and can be used to compare social structures.

A Physical Approach

Simulations created by History Dynamics attempt to use physical phenomena, such as resource use, to drive and constrain simulations. This physical approach provides more realistic simulations. It also allows simulations to be verified against known physical quantities, such as population or agricultural production.

Often historical data is quite sparse. Fortunately, our simulations can make use of such limited data. Even a few items of data can greatly improve the choice of simulation parameters.

Many of our simulations involve the rise and fall of dynasties. We achieve our simulations by utilizing efficiency-discounted exponential growth models. In addition, statistical mechanics provides vital tools for these simulations.

Such models also make it possible to express historic societies in ecologically significant terms, allowing you to better tie your work to the growing area of sustainability.

How to Get Started

Determine a historical situation whose analysis could benefit from a simulation, or that could be better illustrated or explained by a graphic.

If you have a hypothesis that you wish us to simulate, we can help develop a simulation to support or disprove that hypothesis as desired (typically this will depend on the assumptions utilized). Conversely, we can also provide exploratory simulations to help you test a hypothesis or analyze a situation.

Then contact our lead analyst to discuss how we can help you at:

mciotola at pavilionrc dot com