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- Sh0cker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45Anyone for a game of Civ?
- underdog138, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42Digg for the shock and awe cliffhanger at the end.
Iranian Empire?
Dun dun dunnnnn! - jollyllama, on 10/12/2007, -12/+39@theblooms
Watch any Fox News lately? - LordOfTheSponge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28It was great until the end. Iranian empire?
- ArcusOfSV, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Ottoman empire. Everyone sat around with thier feet up. No wonder the British colonies were able to defeat them.
- ghm101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Cool
More detail on the colonial period, which European Country had what bit of sand would be useful? - seattle98104, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20yeah, "europian colonialism" was half assed.
- lendrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Scientists have told us that the world is 4.5 billion years old, and detailed history of human activity is only available for about the last five to seven thousand years. There is nothing inconsistent about this.
- NervClaX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Nice place to visit, but I sure wouldn't want to live there.
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I'd love to see one of these for far east Asia.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"and no im not Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "
Awwww... the questions I have... *disappointed* - Danathar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Is it me...or is there a LARGE empire missing..oh..
THE MONGOLS!
???!!! - TidusBlade, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I doubt Iran will control that part in the future.......
- falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16It's WAY inaccurate!
The thing is like 130 seconds long, not 90.
The timeline goes from 3000 BC to 2006 AD, that's 5006 years, not 5000.
How does this stuff make the front page with such obvious mistakes?!?
(j/k) - nfg05, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13http://duggmirror.com/videos_educational/See_5000_years_of_history_in_90_seconds/
- dancpsu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Funny, how the Bible thing about the "world" being 6,000 years old, and human civilization being about the same age coincide. Maybe the "world" the Bible is talking about is the world of humanity, and not the planet Earth. That would make YEC's go more nuts than they already are.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Yes Persia was a great empire.. until islam destroyed it.
- ShooterMcGavin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This is very cool. I love history and was trying to guess which empire was next.
I'm gonna have to re-load Civ when I get home... - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Really? Cuz, I was kinda hoping to *not* see a nuclear holocaust... you know... ever...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Uh, no, they didnt appear one second and disappear the next IRL... but im thinking the guy who made the video didnt want his video to be 5000 years long, so he tooks some creative license. Apparently he assumed you'd figure it out. How silly.
- Lanser84, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"WMD are prohibited in Islam"
And so are plenty of other behaviors that Islamic terrorists have used. First off, they have a a term for it "disimilitude", it means setting aside Islamic law to achieve the goals of "promoting" Islam.
There are sects that are very explicit about doing whatever it takes to spread Islam. They interpret certain aspects of Islam to be more important to others. Superficial dogmas against WMD or eating certain kinds of meat, or requiring certain modes of dress are less important, on these interpretations, than establishing a world-wide Caliphate. - fanzhango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Agree, Byzantine empire hang around for quite a while but on the map it came and went very fast. And I notice the Sejuk Turks and the Mongols were missing, but overall it's very interesting.
- Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Pretty cool, although highly inaccurate. It's not like the borders of the ancient empires just appeared one second and dissappeared in the next. Stuff like Old Kingdom Egypt is hard to know, but a lot of the later periods could be done in much, much more detail. Would've liked to see the Hellenic Successor States at least passingly mentioned as well.
- roguejoe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Meh, its not entirely accurate, but its close enough.
WTF was that Iranian Empire stuff. Syria and Jordan wouldn't submit. - hoosierplew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I lost my trieme in treacherous waters before I could cross the Mediterranean; all is lost.
- drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapsofwar.com%2Find%2Fimperial-history.html&btnG=Search
BOOYAH! - aposter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@berfmurret
You know, you can avoid those scenarios without dooming the entire world. Simply purchase a firearm, load, place in mouth, and spread your grey matter against the nearest wall. Problem of living in a nursing home is solved and ~6B people don't have to die for you entertainment. - raano, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7LMAO
- Lanser84, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10@webcrumb
Some of them most certainly want to die.
However, they could never get enough popular support unless people thought their wider goals could succeed. So, at best, you are 1/2 right. - hoosierplew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I suppose the map could have started with "60 million B.C.E. - LAND OF THE LOST"
- SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Rove probably snuck in the window and added that bit at the end. I wonder how good is his actionscript?
- funkpucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3best game... learned more about history from Civ than I did from Ancient History class
- kingamoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3According the Bible, the Jews will end the world. I just read it .. It's somewhere in the back.
- mmortal03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3One of the problems is that he is STARTING the growth of each empire at the date when each of those empires ENDED or began to DECLINE. (The ones dated 750, 1187, and 1700 are the ones that I checked, and I think the rest of it follows this pattern. Especially since he isn't drawing in the shrinking of each empire when the next starts to grow, then he just needs to shift the dates on the timeline to the right one notch, so that the next empire starts growing at the point where the last began declining) It is still a great effort, and was informative, and it made me seek out more information.
FYI, one excellent detail that he he included was that after the death of Saladin, there were still some remaining portions of former Crusader States within the area of Jerusalem that had not been defeated, which he even shows (in the following reference, they are in green): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ayyubid.png
He definitely made use of Wikipedia! - KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@SlackerCSB
So? - KyotoWolf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Iran was once a great power (Persia) it could do it again
and no im not Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader Of Iran) - MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Monolith2
The Mongolians came and they conquered; they reached as far as what is Iran today.
FYI, Genghis Khan's empire once covered more land than any other empire in history. (quote from wiki: the largest contiguous empire in world history.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan
check the Mongol Empire map down the page. Check the facts before you start calling names next time. - berfmurret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2modern civilization is about that old doof. nothing much interesting in terms of power struggle is happening any longer ago than that. or at least not relevant to whats going on over there in the present.
- MixMastaKooz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just a quick point: Iran is about 8-10 years away from getting enough fissile material to build a bomb...at least, if you believe all the sources outside of the Bush Administration from the international community like the IAEA.....
- drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3works under xp in firefox :|
- fanzhango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Monolith2
You should look up the battle of Ain Jalut, credit by many historians as the battle that stoped Mongol from expanding into north africa and eventually move into europe via Spain. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hey ***** moron, human history does not equal earth history. In fact life itself on earth only occupies a minor portion of earth's history. In fact, human life is a grain of sand in the timeline of life.
- CasualAffair, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5the mongols never existed, neither did the holocaust or the rennaissance
- hurfydurfur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Power mongers will probably attack other power mongers directly. So they'll be vaporized. Better hug your leaders.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2does this work on linux?
your link loads up, but as soon as the flash loading animation stops it just.. stops
nothing happens - ollj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1doesn't seem popular enough.
Asia and africa are definitely missing. (Dont care much for short america history.) - neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you're looking for more accurate maps try:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ - leonem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a nice animation, and it illustrates the point. However, it's pretty inaccurate as far as the timeline, for example in terms of the Assyrians (actually Neo-Assyrians), the Greeks and the Romans. But that doesn't matter I think -- it would actually work much better without dates at all.
- gadgetuk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4@theblooms
Oh man! You got a serious dose of the paranoids. How do you still sleep at night with the fear that a nuke-packing arab is sneaking down your street? He's looking for YOU by the way.
Take a deep breath, relax, and realise that the chances of you ever being involved in any terrorist incident are so miniscule it's probably more likely that the Sun will go unexpectedly supernova next year.
Do you really expect that - even if Iran manage to enrich any uranium to the required levels in the required quantity, then weaponise it, then find a feasible delivery method - they'll manage to do it while the rest of the world has suddenly stopped watching? Relax dude, it'll all be ok, I promise. If I'm wrong and you get nuked, you can come round and cockpunch me. - squidi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Wow, you're pretty stupid."
And your pretty eloquent arent you !
Id also like to know why 'Anglo American Empire' isn't on the map. Aside from the recent occupation of Iraq, the British invaded in 1941.
Adding American Neo-Liberal control and US back dictators/regimes would be interesting for relevance this century. -
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