Hoagy Cunningham together with Misha Wagner of late decided to map the entire history of the world. The consequence of this ambitious task is Timeglo.be, a d3.js powered interactive globe plotting the place of over 20,000 events across the whole of recorded history.
Timeglo.be uses information from Wikipedia together with DBpedia to demo historical events on an interactive 3d globe. The map provides a global overview of whatever chosen fourth dimension period, giving a genuinely interesting cross department of public history at whatever given betoken inwards time. You tin forcefulness out search for events past times appointment together with past times cardinal words together with and then follow the links provided to persuasion to a greater extent than detailed information on Wikipedia.
Timeglo.be besides serves equally a visual presentation of Wikipedia’s biases together with the overall bias inwards English linguistic communication language content generation. For example, comparison the USA together with Red People's Republic of China from 1850 to 1870, brings upwards the U.S. Civil War together with the Taiping Rebellion. However at that topographic point are literally hundreds of times to a greater extent than Wikipedia entries for the U.S. Civil War than at that topographic point are for the Taiping Rebellion.
Chronas is around other interactive map which maps Wikipedia information to render a persuasion of historical events across the globe.
Chronas non alone maps historical events simply besides provides a mapped overview of province boundaries for whatever given date. If you lot select a twelvemonth from the fourth dimension slider, running along the bottom of the map, the map volition update to demo how the public looked at the chosen time.
If you lot together with then click on a province or geographical expanse on the map a Wikipedia article on the selected historical portion volition opened upwards inwards the map sidebar. For example, if you lot select the twelvemonth 573 AD from the fourth dimension slider, you lot tin forcefulness out select the Visigoths portion on the map to larn to a greater extent than well-nigh these nomadic tribes.
Of course of teaching it isn't alone province boundaries which choose changed over the history of the Earth. The planet has besides physically changed since the dawn of time. This interactive 3d globe from Dinosaur Pictures travels dorsum 600 1000000 years to the dawn of multi-cellular life on Earth and shows how planet public has physically evolved throughout its history.
What Did the World Look Like actually presents a 3d globe which shows how the public looked at whatever stream inwards its history. The site includes ii menus, which let you lot to alter the era visualized on the interactive 3d globe. The card at the elevation of the page allows you lot to select an era past times historic stream together with the card at the elevation correct allows you lot to select a persuasion based on the stages of life on public together with past times geologic period.
