This visualization reminds me of playing Civilization, the game. The histomap shows the growth and decline of different civilizations—pretty interesting to see which ones were completely wiped off the map. I highly recommend reading Guns, Germs and Steel if you like this.
Hat tip: Josh
Guns, Germs and Steel is a classic for sure.
totally agree.
Please define relative power. How did you determine this
It would be interesting to scale this absolutely — Geographical size of empire + Relative Power (or something)
and then watch the regions in the plot expand exponentially
Posting copyrighted material on your blog isn’t very nice.
Why does every Eurpeon country history is large ? what was population of eur0 population compared rest world some, this more eurocentric .