World History Time Chart
World History Time Chart
The Wallchart of World History: From Earliest Times to the Present is a synchronological wallchart and timeline ("timechart") that graphically depicts the history of mankind from 4000 BC, the beginning of man, to modern times.
The chart is based on The Bible, thus a chronological history of The Bible is presented on its first pages, causing nowadays some reluctance to use the chart, that eventually merges with secular history on the pages following.
The original version by Edward Hull was published in 1890 and spanned to his present day in the 19th century. The chart has been later updated to continue up to the 21st century.
Format and design
The chart maintains a Victorian design (even in updated versions) and is thoroughly accompanied by illustrations.
As indicators of time, all through is the chart divided into big black posts which mark centuries and thin red lines which mark decades (with very thin red lines occasionally marking single years).
Additionally, big red crosses indicate great persecutions of Christians at the times of the Roman Empire and small red crosses stand for each of the crusades. Red circles indicate ecumenical councils. Also, question marks indicate uncertainties (they are mostly seen at the beginning of the timechart, where the certainty of events and the accuracy of dates are most disputed).
The nation streams are segmented into different colours, each colour indicating the reign of a particular ruler or a certain type of government. In some cases, prime ministers are shown in the lower half of nation streams and presidents in the upper half. Coloured scrolls and strips near the top of the chart stand for important people other than the rulers and other political leaders shown on the nation streams. These streams grow wider or thinner in accordance to historical context. Some streams divide to indicate a split in the nation (e.g. to indicate the independence of a state) or flow into others to illustrate its conquest, invasion, or acquisition by such other nation.
The Independent describes the chart's peculiar design for a peculiarly big scope of human history as something that...
(...) resembles an unusually complicated digestive system, with its lines, loops, bulges and branches.— Suzi Feay from The Independent
Content
The chart begins with Adam and Eve and advances with their genealogy. At a point of this genealogy, after the deluge (which is indicated by a black line), the chart is divided in two: the upper part continuing with the genealogy and the lower broader part showing the origin of the first nations as men supposedly separated because of the confusion of tongues following the construction of the Tower of Babel. The link between the genealogy upwards and the nation streams downwards is presented by recognizing the founders of each nation as specific people from the genealogy, in accordance to certain interpretations of The Bible.
At certain points of the chart, large percentages of space are occupied by big empires such as the Babylonian Empire (under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II), the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the Roman Empire, which, at one page, occupies almost the entire part of the chart used for nation streams.
At the fall of Rome, the empire's colossal nation stream is divided into many smaller streams of Barbaric Kingdoms.
As history advances, the nation streams, being first wavy, gradually straighten up, probably to illustrate how history becomes more certain and undisputed as it narrows down to the present.
The independence of many colonies is clearly shown as big nation streams standing for colonial empires split into several smaller streams. World War I and World War II are indicated by bold black lines behind the streams with a thickness determined by their duration.
References
- ^ a b Google Book Search entry for updated version
- ^ a b Exodus Books' review for the updated version
- ^ a b Feay, Suzi (Sunday, 12 December 1999). "Books: Top of the pop-ups and wallcharts" (in English). The Independent . Tony O'Reilly . http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-top-of-the-popups-and-wallcharts-1131964.html . Retrieved 2009-02-27 . "it resembles an unusually complicated digestive system, with its lines, loops, bulges and branches"
- ^ a b c d e Jacobsen, Valerie. "The Wall Chart of World History / The Timechart of Biblical History" (in English). Valerie's Living Books . http://www.valerieslivingbooks.info/wallchar.htm . Retrieved 2009-02-28 .
- ^ Eugene Weekly (2005-11-03). "First, there was Adam" (in English). Eugene Weekly news . Eugene Weekly . http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2005/11/03/news.html . Retrieved 2009-02-27 . "According to the chart, the universe was created in 4004 BC, and human history began with Adam and Eve."
- ^ British Library's Integrated Catalogue's record for the original version: Deacon’s Synchronological Chart pictorial and descriptive of Universal History, with maps of the World’s Great Empires and a complete geological diagram of the Earth
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