So yea, I was thinking of doing a series of variants with regions around the same period they are:
Series 1: The Rise of Civilization: 2, 3 or 4 maps outlining the begining of civilization in Mesopotamia, China/India, and the Americas
Series 2: Bronze Age- Ancient China (the Zhou Dynasties including the two periods within it) map, Persian-Greek map, India Map, Roman Kingdom, and an map consisting of all of them entitled Alexander's Conquest.
Series 3: Age of Empires- Roman Republic/Empire map (Carthage, Egypt, Greece, Anatolia, Persia, Rome, etc), Far East (the conflict between Han, Parthia, Japan, India, etc) ; and one that outlines that stretches from coast to coast (Eurasia)
Series 4: Age of Confusion-The fall of the Roman Empire, The Three Kingdoms (fall of Han) period and the period of war following; and maybe some other though I'm not quite knowledgeable...
Series 5 to (5+#): I haven't thought these out yet
Series (6+#): WWI-one map consisting of major WWI powers/regional powers
Series (7+#): WWII-one map consisting of major WWII powers/regional powers, along with one based in the Pacific, Europe/N Africa, and the Far East... there wasn't much in Africa, or Middle East (countries like the Turks went nutural and countries like Iraq didn't really do much... Egypt/other countries that did something will be in the Europe/N Africa map) or the Americas (of which N America was a power/powers that went elsewhere to fight and S America didn't really do anything...)...
Series (8+#): Cold War: Proxy wars (haven't thought how much though)... will definitely do Korea and Vietnam, the two major ones
Series (9+#): The Modern Age-Iraq and Afghanistan war mainly, but will also include some rebellions like the ones for Arab Spring, and some wars/conflicts such as the ones in Sudan, Israel etc
Series (10+#): Redesign of the WWIV map to make stalemate less common (at sea) among other things
Series 1-somewhere in (5+#) or (6+#) will be played in Fog of War to simulate slow passage... depending on time, the area of Fog of War will vary. Series like the Age of Empire will have less fog of war due to the fact that it's the Golden Age that wasn't achieved for ages and wouldn't be achieved for ages more to come