I’ve made a historical chronology puzzle/game. I think I have constructed an internally consistent timeline so that the puzzle makes sense and has one best solution, but if not, it may be necessary to move this to Baked Noodles :)
The object of the game is to work out:
1. When did Queen Anne invade Siberia?
2. What happened in 700 A.D.?
Or at least, to work out the simplest or most likely solution in accordance with principles like Occam’s razor (i.e. if two catastrophic events are both recorded as happening 300 years apart in different chronologies, they are most likely referring to the same two events.) Answers should be given as the "true date", rather than as a date consistent with any particular historical chronology.
To make things easier, you are given the true dates of 2 catastrophic events, as determined by a perfected process of ice core and tree ring data analysis. The catastrophic events are large enough that the same event can be found mentioned in different chronologies.
As for the historical chronologies, you have no way of knowing if they are true, they could all be inaccurate. But periods within one historical chronology are accurate, e.g. if a chronology says something happened 50 years after something else in that same chronology, then it did happen 50 years later.
So here is the data for this imaginary world:
True Date:
200 AD - Big catastrophic event.
500 AD – Big catastrophic event.
Historical chronology: Source A:
100 AD – Big catastrophic event.
360 AD – King Charles invades Norway.
400 AD – Big catastrophic event.
Historical chronology – Source B:
300 AD – Big catastrophic event.
410 AD – Siberia invaded by Queen Anne.
500 AD – Big catastrophic event.
Historical chronology – Source C:
200 AD – Norway invaded by King Charles.
240 AD – Big catastrophic event.
350 AD – Queen Anne invades Siberia.
The object of the game is to work out:
1. When did Queen Anne invade Siberia?
2. What happened in 700 A.D.?
Or at least, to work out the simplest or most likely solution in accordance with principles like Occam’s razor (i.e. if two catastrophic events are both recorded as happening 300 years apart in different chronologies, they are most likely referring to the same two events.) Answers should be given as the "true date", rather than as a date consistent with any particular historical chronology.
To make things easier, you are given the true dates of 2 catastrophic events, as determined by a perfected process of ice core and tree ring data analysis. The catastrophic events are large enough that the same event can be found mentioned in different chronologies.
As for the historical chronologies, you have no way of knowing if they are true, they could all be inaccurate. But periods within one historical chronology are accurate, e.g. if a chronology says something happened 50 years after something else in that same chronology, then it did happen 50 years later.
So here is the data for this imaginary world:
True Date:
200 AD - Big catastrophic event.
500 AD – Big catastrophic event.
Historical chronology: Source A:
100 AD – Big catastrophic event.
360 AD – King Charles invades Norway.
400 AD – Big catastrophic event.
Historical chronology – Source B:
300 AD – Big catastrophic event.
410 AD – Siberia invaded by Queen Anne.
500 AD – Big catastrophic event.
Historical chronology – Source C:
200 AD – Norway invaded by King Charles.
240 AD – Big catastrophic event.
350 AD – Queen Anne invades Siberia.
