@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social 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

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social 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.

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social 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.

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I want this in print! 🤩

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Absolute legend

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Someone should make an interactive website based on a modern version of this

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social 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?

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social nice. Someone needs to continue this. It's nearly a hundred years old

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social #Eurocentric The wast Songhai Empire is missing.
#MansaMusa

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social this is awesome. Thank you for sharing. It would’ve very interesting to see it updated to the current world.

@gutenberg_org Very nice graph!Ahead of its time!We are now at the end of the US empire, it took less than 100 years…

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social I love this. I had a copy up on my cubicle wall at work for years.

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social references for British writers only. Only negative views for other countries. Great effort but Quite skewed.

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social as others point out, this really is the white eurocentric history map. It's not even close to "all of it".

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social yeeeeah let's just call Kyivan Rus russia, basically the same as Romans and Romas nobody cares anyway

history is made up

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Impressive, although some may feel slightly left out, in Australia, the Americas, oh and perhaps Africa...