Ridgeline chart of 100 empires #history #timeline Territorial expanse (height in million km2) Including primary written language (colour).
10/20/2026, 4 engagements
Filtering by: history · clear filter
Focus on Spain and the Spanish Empire.
#timeline #history
10/13/2026, 6 engagements
Improved #timeline #history
Ridgeline chart of territory. 100 empires.
100 empires #timeline #history
Another ridgeline chart of empires. Using data from Cliopatria.
#timeline #history
50 empires, 50 centuries. Art nouveau style wallpaper. Area represents territory (M km2).
Second attempt. Trying to make a condensed 3D #timeline of the #history of writing.
I dislike some of the editorial choices, but still, not a bad timeline.
#timeline #history
I could not help myself... I had to add some examples of coins and notes from each period to this awesome #timeline of the #history of #money made by
Of course you could add thousands of coins... but just a few highly representative examples adds a bit of flavour without distracting from the zoom-out, long term view.
50 centuries of world history.
Ridgeline chart of empires (height is territory) with selected dates and events.
#history #timeline
Ridgeline chart of #history #timeline
Size of mountain shows territory.
X axis = timeline
Another attempt to merge decoration and data.
50 empires in 50 centuries, but represented as trees. Olive for the west, palms for the middle and bamboo for the east.
#timeline #history
Tree of History.
I've added the Sassanid Persians and changed the egyptian scarab to an Ankh to make it clearer. I've also replaced the sumerian An. Added the american eagle and chinese flag to bring the timeline up to the present.
I'll work on cleaning up the roman numerals to make the dates more meaningfully line up with the shields.
I could also start including faces around the outside... or maybe replace the assyrian fighters with ones relevant to each era...
I have to start thinking of the future part. Always fun to make some predictions.
#scifi #history #timeline
Quiz time!
I will zap ⚡ the first person to name what each shield represents.
I will also zap ⚡ the best suggestions to fill the empty shields.
#history
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Fun with timelines. Representing history as the tree of life.
It's still work in progress, many mistakes. (Yes, I'll fix the numbers...).
What would you change? What other empires deserve a mention?
#history #timeline
New cities founded by Greeks, Rome, Spain, Britain.
#timeline #history
#history #timeline #hispano
Added dates. Hopefully legible when you zoom in.
Combining a timeline and a map seems like a nice idea.
#timeline #history #hispano
The problem with AI is that the result always looks good, until you zoom in.
Always some typos, always loses precision. Still... it is fast.
#history #timeline
Art and data align.
The main branch curves with historical climate data, which in turn affects the East-West power balance.
Mediterranean trading in bronze age vessels cares a lot about the weather. Just ask Odysseus!
#history #timeline
#timeline #history
I found this classic timeline. It's amazing.
#history #timeline
This is just a simpler stacked bar chart, with one datapoint per century, which does distort if you zoom in too much...
But I see some value in this format as it allows for easy comparisons.
50 empires x 50 centuries
(+religions +coins +labels +dates)
#timeline #history
50 Empires in 50 Centuries.
It's starting to come together. Much improved data on km2, thanks to https://worldhist.org/.
Still some refining need, but things are lining up nicely.
#history #timeline
The data still needs improvement, but I'm getting very close to a final format: 50 empires in 50 centuries.
#history #timeline
Some useful labels. Added dates, events, etc.
#timeline #history
Territory is not everything, but it's easy to measure compared to military strength, wealth or cultural influence. It also shows the rise and fall of empires quite clearly.
I'm quite happy with this ridgeline format. It condenses a lot of information very efficiently, but also allows for comparison. This one only has 26 empires, but I imagine it could be expanded to the top 50.
#timeline #history
Corrected the GUPTA / MAURYA error.
Maurya Empire: 320 BC to 185 BC Gupta Empire: 240 AD to 579 AD
#timeline #history
Territorial expanse of empires million km2 from 2500 BC to 2500 AD.
#history #timeline
I still don't fully trust the data. It seems as it gets more complete it loses accuracy. I'm going to have to manually check it all...
Still not the final form, but continues to improve in historical accuracy.
#timeline #history
I've thrown in some future predictions for fun.
Slightly better data. Most curves are still just an approximation, but the roman, mongol, british, spanish empires now reflect the historical expanse a bit more accurately.
I will keep improving it.
#history #timeline
Incomplete and only approximate... but I like the format.
Territorial expanse (M km2).
#timeline #history
#timeline #history
Top 20 empires by territorial expanse.
25th Century BC to 20th AD.
12/31/2025, 3 engagements
Spanish royal family tree.
#history #hispano
12/19/2025, 3 engagements
Historia Mundi V
Added some more battles, books, connections, coins. Increased font size for legibility.
#timeline #history
1931 John B. Sparks. Histomap.
#timeline #history
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-biggest-empires-of-history-on-one-epic-visual-timeline/
12/15/2025, 2 engagements
The rise and fall of empires in the last 500 years.
#history #timeline
12/15/2025, 4 engagements
Charted: The Number of European Colonies by Country (1450-2000)
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-number-of-european-colonies-by-country-1450-2000/
#timeline #history
12/15/2025, 2 engagements
On a map you would include major landmarks: cities, roads, castles, universities, ports...
What would be the equivalent on a #timeline ?
Sticking to my gold, swords, ideas categories, I thought I should include some measure of trade as a backdrop, selected books and major battles.
Hopefully it's legible...
#history
I've added some more detail and connections between civs.
#timeline #history
11/30/2025, 1 engagement
#timeline #history
I thought it would be fun to include waves of innovation in S-curve shape.
11/28/2025, 1 engagement
Work in progress...
#timeline #history
11/27/2025, 1 engagement
US Business booms and depressions since 1775.
#economic #history #timeline
11/26/2025, 1 engagement
Summarised history of money.
From mesopotamian and egyptian weights to Bitcoin.
#timeline #history #money
11/26/2025, 3 engagements
#history #timeline
This one with modern Empires.
Again, take the data with caution. Will refine later.
11/11/2025, 1 engagement
#history #timeline
Another attempt to chart imperial military, economic and cultural power.
I still don't trust the data very much, but it's a good start.
11/11/2025, 1 engagement
#history #timeline
Charting military, economic and cultural power of a few ancient empires.
Military = army size Economic = gold treasury Cultural = book production
(Data from chatgpt, so don't trust it too much).
#history #timeline
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The span of this chart is much shorter than my usual #history #timeline but it's still worth posting.
Probably the best you could have hoped for from legacy finance a few years ago, when #gold was constantly called a barbarous relic.
The spread of writing.
#history #timeline
¡Buen día para recordar la historia!
#history #timeline #hispano
I just felt like translating it all to latin, as a learning exercise.
Also, I put some binary in there, just for fun.
#timeline #history #latin
I liked the Alhambra frieze concept so I have added some empires and other basic info.
It's still hard to add text, dates, numbers without hurting aesthetics... but there's got to be a way to do it.
#history #timeline
Here's a cleaner (incomplete) #timeline of the #history of #money
Very summarised, so much could be written about each period... but to keep it simple and visual.
Here's another weak attempt to put it all together...
#history #money #timeline
Me ha encantado el libro "Dinero" de Daniel Fernández. Una visión muy necesaria de la historia economica y monetaria. Muy pocos economistas y ningún historiador han entrado en tanto detalle o han alcanzado una visión tan amplia. Su perspectiva austriaca es refrescante frente a la inmensa mayoría de keynesianos o monetaristas que han escrito sobre estos temas.
Espero que se traduzca a muchos idiomas. También espero con gran anticipación su próximo libro sobre el patrón oro clásico.
Mi mayor crítica es el poco tiempo que le dedica a Bitcoin. Hay muchas lecciones para un futuro patrón Bitcoin que se pueden extraer de la historia explicada en este libro.
En cualquier caso recomiendo encarecidamente su lectura. En este caso el mundo #hispano se ha adelantado, no conozco un equivalente a este libro en inglés.
#history #economics #money
#timeline #history #hispano
Mapa ilustrado de la historia de las civilizaciones
(Un par de mejoras respecto a la versión anterior...)
#timeline #history #hispano
Mapa ilustrado de la historia de las civilizaciones
#timeline #history
I've added the Louvre chart as a background. It gives a very good sense of the golden ages and periods of decline. Of course there is some bias... I would love to have a similar chart combining multiple museums... but the sample is large enough (almost 30k items) that the data is meaningful.
Here is one for classical empires... Rome, Greeks, Persia...
#timeline #history
Another good proxy for wealth, culture: book production (pre-printing press).
#timeline #history
