Timeline of World History

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  @UsefulCharts · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Lots of comments about my placement of Egypt, so let me respond: Geographically, Egypt is in Africa. However, from a cultural and genetic perspective, it is also very much a part of the Middle East. Although it had interactions with other parts of Africa throughout history, it also had lots of interactions with the Levant, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. Therefore, for reasons of design and in order to more easily show several key interactions that occurred in ancient times, I placed Egypt next to the Middle Eastern civilizations rather than the Sub Saharan civilizations. In the video, I mistakenly summarized the horizontal sections as the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia & the Pacific but it would have been more accurate to describe them as the Americas, Sub Saharan Africa, Europe, the MIDDLE EAST, Asia & the Pacific. In other words, I did not mean to insinuate that Egypt is a part of Europe! Finally and most importantly, please note that there are no geographical labels on the poster itself. While civilizations are generally shown from West to East, this is a history poster, not a geography poster, so it's not exact.

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  @Mu51kM4n · 6 years ago

  "without writing we can't have history" is the OG "pics or it didn't happen"

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  @kr0nz · 5 years ago

  its crazy to think that in a few thousand years, we'll all just be a short line on someone's chart.

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  @tiafp · 5 years ago

  they really need to start giving kids this chart in school, makes it so much easier to learn when you understand the context of everything. i think a lot of people struggle connecting the dots on all the things that were happening in different cultures at a given time in history. this makes it so much easier!

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  @nicolelittrell2937 · 1 year ago

  I am a custodian at a high school, and we were deep cleaning a room. As we were scrubbing the floor, I noticed a picture on  the wall  and said to my coworker that it looked like a useful chart from a YouTuber  that I watch.  I walked over, and sure enough, it was one of yours. I was probably way more excited than I should have been. Oh well, I love your channel 💕

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  @LK-se2ju · 5 years ago

  I really need a similar chart that compares the “eras” of art, philosophy, literature, science, music etc... while listing major events.

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  @abdulraheemtahir6269 · 5 years ago

  In this 17 minutes long video, I learned more history than I ever did in my 12 years of schooling.

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  @HappygangGenZ · 5 years ago

  He single-handedly promoted himself and created content.  What a genius.

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  @EddieMurria · 1 year ago

  I love this chart showing everything going on at the same time. It’s how I wish all history was taught to understand the world as a whole at that specific time not just the US or a smaller part of a country

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  @aylenpacheco2080 · 5 years ago

  As a visual learner I’ve always struggled so much to understand history in its context but this video is so damn helpful!! I enjoyed it so much

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  @Loren_Law · 5 years ago

  I'm willing to bet that the invention of the internet is going to be the transition marker future historians will use for whatever age we are living in the beginning of

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  @bobbyyie1310 · 6 years ago

  This was actually the most enjoyable 17 minutes I've ever experienced on YouTube.

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