The History of the World in a Single Chart

The Vault, the history blog of the general interest webmagazine Slate, recently offered a “Histomap” (first printed by Rand McNally in 1931). This Histomap was designed to compress four thousand years of world history into an elongated chart.

To access this Histomap, please visit:

Slate: The Vault: The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart (12 AUG 13)