World History Timeline

Posted by omererulke

21 Comments

  1. a_rabid_anti_dentite on

    Very Eurocentric. The size of the Han relative to the Roman Empire tells me a lot. Still a cool concept.

  2. TryingUnsuccessfully on

    Sumeria doesn’t deserve a highlight? I don’t understand on what assumptions this graphic was made, but I’d suspect the author needs more education in history.

  3. We’re all mad here!
    I can only show you the door.
    “Good morning, and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”

  4. Prime_Director on

    I really like this, but the way the data is presented, I think gives a false impression of the scale and significance of various polities. For example, the Roman Empire takes up about 1/3 of the chart at it’s peak, while the contemporaneous Han Dynasty takes up like 1/20th. At their respective peaks around the first century AD, the Han controlled more land than Rome, and had a slightly larger population. But in the chart it’s a fraction of the size. It makes places outside Europe seem like an afterthought.

  5. I can maybe see Europe being larger than Africa on this map, but the fact that it’s larger than Asia, I mean the bias couldn’t be more obvious like come on 🙄

  6. The more prosperous part of the Roman Empire never stopped being Roman, is this a western european centric thinking to portray it as such?

  7. This is either wildly outdated or just poorly researched. For instance the Norte Chico civilization was prospering in South America since at least 3000 BC.

  8. Why is any Chinese empire never as large as the Ottoman Empire or even the Egyptian Malmluks…?

  9. More-City-7496 on

    Either China should also show in SEA or Vietnam should be east Asia with China. Furthermore I think Asia is way too condensed, if using the same scale Europe should just be one subsection