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World History Timeline

kottke.org·Jason Kottke·18 days ago
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This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your own here.

The chart is based on Joseph Priestley’s A New Chart of History (1769):

Priestley is best known for his co-discovery of oxygen.

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