Timeline of World History By UsefulCharts

[SupremacyKing2]

I just wanted to talk about this awesome poster that I got from UsefulCharts.com. It is really cool. It does a great job of summarizing the civilizations and progression throughout History. I highly recommend it.

I really like the eras that it uses for History.

Early Bronze Age: 3300 BCE to 2100 BCE
Bronze Age: 2100 BCE to 1200 BCE
Iron Age: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE
Classical Antiquity: 600 BCE to 500 CE
Middles Ages: 500 CE to 1500 CE
Modern Period: 1500 CE to Present

Another thing that is neat is to see how civilizations started pretty few and split and grew over time. I wish civ6 allowed new civs to emerge and split off of existing civs.

We also notice that the bulk of development was centered around the Middle East and Europe. That is where we see a flurry of "activity" with several civilizations rising and falling. This makes sense since we know that the fertile land around the Mesopotamia was particularly conducive to a population explosion and more civilizations interacting with each other which led to a rapid development of technology.

We can also see that the timeline gets more "busy" later one and that "busyness" spreads to all the continents as the Europeans started colonizing the Americas and beyond.

Hopefully, we can chat about world history and if you already have this poster, please share what you find interesting about it.

 

[md4]

I have both my kids (11 & 10) playing Civ3 and actually starting to become interested in history. I'm already thinking of getting this printed as a poster to put on the wall beside their PC.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

Another thing that I find interesting with timelines like this, especially with how it goes in increments of 100 years, is how tiny some major events look in the grand scope of History. For example, WW1 and WW2 look like blips even though they had a huge impact on the entire world. They were very short events in the grand scheme of things, yet had a huge impact. History can seem like a very gradual progression but there can also be very short events that happen suddenly and absolutely change the status quo in a fundamental way.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Well for World history you have this:

Basically the major civilizations early on was Egypt to India.

However economic growth look something like this:https://ourworldindata.org/economic-growth

The majority of economic growth in absolute terms have happened in the last few decades.

Technology growth look something similar: https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress

It basically tell how impactful exponentional growth is over a long timeperiod.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

Well for World history you have this:

Basically the major civilizations early on was Egypt to India.

However economic growth look something like this:https://ourworldindata.org/economic-growth
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The majority of economic growth in absolute terms have happened in the last few decades.

Technology growth look something similar: https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress

It basically tell how impactful exponentional growth is over a long timeperiod.

Thanks. That's a great video. And yes, it is very informative to see the power of exponential growth. The exponential growth of the human population is the primary driving force IMO. More people means more of everything, more wealth creation, faster exchange of wealth, more technological development, faster exchange of technology, faster exchange of ideas etc...