Timeline of World History | Major Time Periods & Ages

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CREDITS:
Chart: Matt Baker
Script/Narration: Matt Baker
Animation: @AlMuqaddimahYT
Audio Editing: @JackRackam

[UsefulCharts]

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.

[tiafp]

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!

[MukMn]

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

[napat]

Timeline
1:47 - A.D. / B.C. (definitions)
2:40 - C.E. / B.C.E.
3:14 - Starting reference point(s) in history
3:50 - Stonge Age and Planet Earth (years)
4:27 - Early Bronze Age
6:01 - 4.2 Kiloyear Event
6:35 - Bronze Age Proper
7:46 - Bronze Age Collapse
8:06 - Iron Age / Greek "Dark Ages"
9:50 - Classical Antiquity
12:01 - Middle Ages (Medieval Period)
12:26 - Western European "Dark Ages"
15:29 - Modern Age
16:27 - Trends in transition between time periods (climate, mass migration, pandemic)

[PoorLifestyles]

I see a lot of comments along the lines of "why didn't we have this in school". What you fail to realize is no one throughout history had this chart in school, We are currently living in a time that makes creating & sharing this video with billions of people possible.
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[krnz]

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

[LK-seju]

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

[tinylife_homeschool]

I love being able to see how so many civilizations followed similar patterns, and had their rises and falls around the same time. Super fascinating!

[lemmetellyousomething]

Imagine how many colorful lines would be out there in history that we can't know about them in anyway except if there's time machine

[bobbyyie]

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

[abdulraheemtahir]

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

[truthof]

I’m already freaked out knowing that the distance between the horizon white lines is most likely longer than my life span. Prospective on the phrase “life is short”.

[Yosetime]

I just love the narration and the level of detail put into a digestible format that is easy to absorb and to see the overall picture. Absolute perfection! Thank you!

[aylenpacheco]

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

[tylerchan]

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

[yesthatbruce]

This is just so awesome, fantastic in every way. Without repeating all the other comments, I'll just say that I learned more about history in this video's 17 minutes than I ever did throughout my school years. Major kudos especially for the brilliant graphics ... this chart makes it so much easier to grasp these concepts than just reading articles about each individual element. I've saved this video along with a very few others in my "Best" queue. Bravo, bravo, bravo!

[ErnestThurston]

I really enjoy all of your charts. I pass them on to friends. It's great how you can take a complicated subject and break it down to a few charts that are easy to understand. I also appreciate the scholarly approach to religion that you do.

[Loren_Law]

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

[benthye]

I have enjoyed the study of history my entire adult life.

This is *THE* single best chart, narration, and overview of world history I have ever seen.

Simply outstanding!!!

May the Gods of the Romans, and Greeks, and the YouTube algorithms reward you handsomely for your efforts. :)

[JohnyEarsack]

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Both the chart and the accompanying video explaining and outlining interesting points. Thank you