Thanks BenLurkin.
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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Excuse my ignorance, but where are the uhh, “Teens”?
My point — none, unless someone listens to Barry Soetero & his African-American Studies buddies.
Klingons.
Interesting that the Asiatic countries, China and India, have persisted for the entire duration. Thanks for posting this.
Where are the Israelites?
Yup, china AND india!
What if a society's very success "bakes in" the seeds for its own destruction? Perhaps it is inevitable. Maybe the cyclical nature of civilization has been this way even back before recorded time.
austrailia is at the bottom just to the right of the US. Africa has no power and never has (with the exception of Egypt) and thus since this chart shows (relative power) Africa never appears on it.
Israel = Hebrews: 1300 B.C. to 500 B.C.
Looks like somebody had way too much time on their hands.
Hmmm, the thread loses a little oomph without the image on the thread. I know I’d rather see that jpeg than the oversized obama pic midway down.
Thanks BenLurkin.
The entire history of the world, in 1 chart
Neat graphic.
Check it out.
super cool. thanks for sharing
I had a timeline similar to this, but a little simpler, for a Bible Study Class.
Cool, thanks.
They’re somewhat euro-centric in their comparison of Rome vs. the Han empire.
The chart looks bogus at a glance. IMHO...nobody has contributed more “civilization” to the entire earth than the British empire.
“What other African kingdoms have been world powers?”
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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