clew

What was the official name of this long foldout map of history-by-area, and does anyone know how they calculated the areas?

https://ygraph.com/graphs/World-History-Map.jpg

Is there a more current version?

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Mar 22 at 7:08pmWeb
Show threadBtrinenMar 22
@clew I don’t understand what the width over time is measuring. Are they implying something about how important the area is in history at different times? It seems like a super subjective idea disguised as a data driven map. Or maybe I missed the point.
Show threadclewMar 22

It’s not how important the area is, it’s how much of the landmass was under the control of each culture/polity.
IIRC!

@btrinen

Show threadBtrinenMar 22
@clew Thanks! I totally missed that
Show threadclewMar 22

That photo leaves out very important parts! Really hoping someone can improve my search.

Used to see these in used bookstores, they informed many a wander from the fiction to the history cases

@btrinen

Show threadMatthewMar 22

@clew It was called the Histomap: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/histomap/
I had a copy, might still be around here somewhere.

[edit, some other links: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zy11vz/histomap_4000_years_of_world_history_printed_by/ https://www.thehistomap.com/about ]

Histomap: Visualizing the 4,000 Year History of Global Power

We examine an ambitious timeline that details the power of various civilizations going all the way back to 2,000 B.C.

Visual Capitalist
Show threadclewMar 22

Oh! Btrinen, you were right, I was wrong, it was trying to map influence??

Well, that’s too much work, adding norms in both the cultural and the metric sense. “Land area under the control of” doesn’t have to add up to 100% either but times it doesn’t are interesting in themselves.

What, do I need to make the map I imagined existed?

I feel like the animator who draws bouncy spheres to represent countries has done a lot of the background work…

@dracos @btrinen