History is not one straight line.
Follow a chronological route through the historical settings of Assassin’s Creed. The games are signposts, not sources for facts: these pages explore real societies, power, everyday life, and consequences—no fictional lore.
Explore the timelineChoose an era; see the larger world.
The period links reflect the main historical settings of the games. A title locates a window in time; it is not a claim that the game’s plot happened.
Classical Greece in wartime
The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and its maritime empire against Sparta and its allies, but “Greece” was no single state.
Egypt between dynasties and empire
In the final decades of the Ptolemaic kingdom, Egypt was wealthy and politically contested as Rome expanded its influence.
Baghdad at a crossroads
Abbasid Baghdad was a capital of administration, trade, scholarship, and religious life in a connected Afro-Eurasian world.
Viking-age England
Raids, settlement, trade, and political negotiation connected Scandinavian groups to England’s changing kingdoms.
The Third Crusade and the Levant
Crusader and Muslim powers fought for cities and routes in a region already home to diverse communities.
Florence and Venice in the Renaissance
Florence and Venice were wealthy, competitive cities whose art and learning grew within complex political and commercial systems.
Renaissance Rome
Popes, patrons, artists, diplomats, and armies remade Rome as both a spiritual center and a political capital.
Ottoman Constantinople
After 1453, Constantinople became the Ottoman capital: an imperial city linking the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and inland routes.
Japan at the end of the Sengoku era
Regional warfare and political consolidation reshaped Japan during the Azuchi–Momoyama transition.
The Caribbean age of piracy
Piracy thrived around commercial shipping and imperial rivalry, and those ships moved through an economy built partly on enslaved labor.
The Seven Years’ War
A struggle over territory and trade in North America became part of a wider global war among empires.
Colonial Louisiana and New Orleans
French and then Spanish colonial rule shaped New Orleans amid slavery, Indigenous diplomacy, and Atlantic trade.
The American Revolution
Colonial protest against British rule became a war for independence, while the meaning of liberty remained deeply contested.
The French Revolution
Financial crisis and unequal privilege sparked a revolution that remade sovereignty, law, and political participation.
Industrial London
Victorian London grew through industry, finance, and empire while exposing stark differences in wealth, work, and health.