Posted on 04/28/2015 11:49:43 AM PDT by iowamark
The 5-foot-long chart below has an ambitious goal: To record 4,000 years of history in a single graphic.
Drawn by John B. Sparks of Rand McNally and Company in 1931, the chart traces world history from the Egyptian Empire through the Assyrians, Persians, Romans and Huns through the early 20th Century. It’s clearly a Eurocentric and dated view of the world’s history: The colors represent different racial groupings, as they were perceived in the 1930s – “Mediterranean People,” “Alpine People,” and “Mongolian People.”
The width ostensibly shows the rise and fall of these groupings, though that metric seems far from fair -- China is given just a sliver of the chart at the right-hand side, and India even less. Even so, the chart is an interesting historical artifact, showing how Europeans and Americans conceived the history of the world in the early 20th Century.
Republished courtesy of the David Rumsey Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com.
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A snapshot of the 1931 world before the rise of Hitler and Tojo.
Looks like the Persians and the Turks have been royal pains in the butt for the most part.
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Australians? Africans?
In before the Mel brooks history reference.
Cool concept on a way to display the information.
Sir, the peasants are revolting.
You said it. They stink on ice.
oops...Aussies included as part of the British Empire; makes sense.
But where’s Holder’s people & Obama’s sons?
a condensded version of the world’s history up to the near future
“God Created”
2008-2016 happened
“God Destroyed”
The end
cool!
“The Inquisition, what a show, The Inquisition here we go..”
Same reason there are no Arabs on Star Trek.
Looking at that histomap, I’ve come to the obvious conclusion, “ it’s good to be the king.”
At this point in current history, we need a miracle.
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Of course it is a BIG chart.
Egypt and Ethiopia are fairly well represented. South Africa is included in the British Empire.
What other African kingdoms have been world powers?
This should be a required history class - with each era studied as to what made them successful - what made them fall -
NO GRADUATION until completed.
People need to be able to see the signs of deterioration of a society and get a jump start on heading it off
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