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Project GutenbergThe Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart
In 1931, John B. Sparks created the Histomap, condensing more than 4,000 years of world history into a vibrant infographic.
By Rebecca Onion (from the archives)
Johnno@gutenberg_org Nothing there about when the First Peoples of Australia arrived from Africa some 120,000 years ago. That would stretch the Histomap for a few feet more.
'|@DjityDjity @gutenberg_org also nothing there about my country's (Portugal) first years as a small county within Spain's realm, before the 'reconquest' ended in 1143. The map only shows Portugal's history starting in around 1350, which is very innacurate for about 350 years of history.
Willow 🏳️⚧️🏴🇵🇸@DjityDjity @gutenberg_org also world was here before humans evolved. was pretty disappointing to see the “history of the whole world” to only acknowledge later human history.
impressive yes, but certainly not the whole- really, all of it- history of the world.
Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary@whangdoodler @DjityDjity @gutenberg_org
Big chunk of human history, to be sure, but it's no "history of the entire world, I guess". Just... about as close as someone with a Western viewpoint would've gotten in the early 1930s if thinking only of human history.
I'm sure someone trying to make a histogram like that today could probably make more than just the tiny 500-year sliver from 1050 to 1550 for Native Americans by now, for example.
history of the entire world, i guess
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@gutenberg_org @pteryx @DjityDjity i have no issues with the content, only with the presentation method in the toot.
pixie@DjityDjity @gutenberg_org yeap, also nothing on early south americans. So it's not "all the history of the world - really all of it", it's more of a "the entire history of the world known by ocidental scholars" maybe?
Le Papier Blanc@DjityDjity
Because it a prehistory event.
"A history is a representation of the past in the form of a history text." 😉
redirtSdeR@gutenberg_org Someone should make an interactive website based on a modern version of this
sheislaurence@gutenberg_org for 1931 it is a great effort for a Western man, but hardly a 'history of the world', given it is missing 2 continents (South America appearing in 1800s?) and most of Africa. Also what is interesting is what constitutes #history is it defined by #wars? That is such a reductive way of seeing it. At least he tried with some references to 'art' (passing judgement on 'proper') but what about science, peace, prosperity?
Mab_813Reminds me of the time I opened a book about the history of subsaharan Africa and the first sentence was "History in subsaharan Africa started when Europeans arrived" (yes, that book was written by european historians).
Dziadek@Mab_813 @sheislaurence @gutenberg_org
One of the many abominations of the colonisers hold on history. My pet hate is the fact that so many believe that white men “discovered” so much of Africa, when all they did was pitch up at a place and grab it from the local population, along with all the raw materials and large swathes of the population and claim it as their own.
Of course these authors didn't think they were racist at all. They are white european historians and therefore entirely objective, unlike those anti-colonialist writers who bring their ideology into everything!
They followed a definition of "history" that only includes written sources and they thought it was completely valid to subject all other continents to this european definition - and just declare that regions where written sources came later than in Europe were lagging behind when it comes to "having history".
sonja dolinsek@gutenberg_org nice. Someone needs to continue this. It's nearly a hundred years old
@sonjdol agreed and then include all the missing countries as well…
Becksy@gutenberg_org this is awesome. Thank you for sharing. It would’ve very interesting to see it updated to the current world.
xs4me2Very nice graph!
Ahead of its time!
We are now at the end of the US empire, it took less than 100 years…
Patioboater@gutenberg_org I love this. I had a copy up on my cubicle wall at work for years.
Askold@gutenberg_org yeeeeah let's just call Kyivan Rus russia, basically the same as Romans and Romas nobody cares anyway
history is made up
Igor@gutenberg_org references for British writers only. Only negative views for other countries. Great effort but Quite skewed.
Alon@gutenberg_org It's a shit map. How did the Carolingian Empire get to be larger than Tang China? How did the post-Carolingian HRE get to be larger than Song China? Song China had something like five times the population of the Early Modern HRE (not just the Habsburg lands), let alone the population of the medieval one.
Scaea - Social@Alon @gutenberg_org It's like "relative power" is more like "amount of attention this empire controls on the average british mind" China's power would eclipse the sale in a few places if it was allowed on the map
@gutenberg_org Incredibly Eurocentric and biased to the western worldview. Absolutely not all of history. Fascinating, still, but we need 3 or 4 more of these for Asia, America, Africa, Pacific, and others
Anatoli Fred@gutenberg_org
Someone has commented that the map is Eurocentric (focused on a look from Europe), but I have found shortcomings or maybe they are simplifications. For example, the Crown of Aragon does not exist on the map or from the beginning it is considered part of Spain.
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_d%27Arag%C3%B3
Someone has commented that the map is Eurocentric (focused on a look from Europe), but I have found shortcomings or maybe they are simplifications. For example, the Crown of Aragon does not exist on the map or from the beginning it is considered part of Spain.
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_d%27Arag%C3%B3
