The History of the World: Every Year (3800BC-Present)

ایران عیلامی اولین تمدن رسمی دنیابعدمصر۳چین۴یونان۵هندواریایی۶روم ۷قوم ازیکا درپرو۸

in bc 209 the great hun empire need to be in the map

Imagine if we could simulate human history in a single application.

厉害，5:05的时候，你竟然把中国四川的绿色的三星堆文明都标注了

fellow egyptians, we took our piece of cake 4000 years ago, no one gonna eat forever

the tang dynasty is completely inaccurate. it doesnt distinguish between protectorates and the dynasty, and includes tibet and other areas which were never part of its territtry.

4004 BC IS WHEN ADAM AND EVE WAS CREATED

Numidia 🇩🇿💪♥️ ‏‪9:25‬‏

15:53 born of chosen one

I love how you included coastline changes in central asia

8:25 kurdish jumpscare:

worth every second of my life

Genshin music😭😭🙏

Яхши маълумот. Аммо мобил интернет қандай ишлайди. Шу ҳақда батафсил видео чиқара оласизми?

The music of Europa universalis 4 😅

9:30 music dropped at the perfect time

seems like Humans just hang out around the band of Eurasian coast between the mediteranian, middle east, india and china, .... almost like the Indian ocean is the real central important place in history.
The Axial belt, the Silk ROad, the LUCKY LATTITUDE, the developed core, the Eurasian-Afro-Sino Ecumene. The Indian Ocean World Theory.

it's funny to see how china is both the most stable and least stable region since it keeps returing and faling over and over again and again

aint shit goin on nowadays...

As a Chinese, omg, we as people are so centric, we have been top 3-5 in the list throughout history. You may think on the times of division that might not be true, but fuck, we all believed the same things, eat the same foods argue the same way even then, yet right now, as a people, we are so full of ourselves, saying we lost, and thrown under the bus by Europe, my god, just be ourselves, stop complaining and comparing us to the west, just be happy and already we’re winners. After all, we’ve been the top of the list for most of the history, we can live off of our resources, let others be winners for a while, and be glad we survived and endured after going through so much.

what is the tiny dot that appears on estonian territory at 11:44?

Bro Lithuania which is the nation to the right of Poland from 1320-1569 has always been its own nation from 1009AD to 1795AD. It only became "one" with Poland in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at only 1569AD. Don't just call it Poland. It definitely wasn't

El verdadero origen de la humanidad, es ridículo que la gente que piensa que es en África

Imagine that Egypt was occupied for nearly 2000 years and is now trying to get back on its feet. 😢

Music

Would like to see a website replicate this vid for like map makers and hoi4~ish games

The black death

1. Old Europe or Danubian pre-civilisation/Old Europe (archaeology)/Old Great Thrace c. 6800 BC

2. Karanovo culture - Karanovo I 6200/6101 BC

3. Cucuteni–Trypillia culture 5800 BC

4. Vinča culture c. 5400 BC

5. Dnieper–Donets culture c. 5000 BC

6. Varna culture c. 4550 BC

7. Danube pre-civilisation 4500 BC (Anthony, David 2010)

8. Thracian civilisation 4340 BC

9. Early Yamnaya culture 3400 BC

10. Egypt 2950 BC

11. Sumerian civilization - Uruk 2900 BC

Around 650 the middle east and north Africa were lost.

When someone says their land is given to them by a god. I don't really believe them.

How can I pay for this?

I realize how great is China!

Indis valley satarted in 7000 bc

thanks for documenting north african history even though i expected to see algeria and tunisia as their own states during the ottoman era , love the video tho

educational and fun to watch. if everything in this video is correct, thank you for your 5 years of work.

Indus valley is larger

Actually, this is a good video because the error was avoided of showing the so-called Holy Roman Empire as a unified state which, unfortunately is done in other history YT videos and instead are shown historically entirely accurate the numerous German small states which is correct because the so-called Holy Roman Empire was a failed state that no longer existed. Unfortunately there is also an error in the video because although the Polish great power is depicted in a single color and labeled In the right way simply as Poland on the left in the video before 1569 but unfortunately, from 1569 onwards, the incorrect designation "Poland-Lithuania" is used for Poland. For this was Poland before 1569 as has been accurately portrayed in this video just as it was also Poland after 1569 because Lithuania was dominated by Poland and was part of the Polish great power and empire. Therefore both after 1569 and before 1569, it was Polish great power and the Polish Empire but not Poland-Lithuania! Consequently, in the legend on the left side next to the map in the video, the name Poland should also have been shown for the period after 1569! This also corresponds to the monochromatic manner in which Poland is depicted in the video both before and after 1569! Just one color for Poland that was the only one that mattered! So, ideally for historical accuracy they should have consistently listed Poland in the legend to the left of the map throughout the entire video!

This video is impressive as a moving-border project, and I genuinely respect the amount of time and effort it must have taken to map changes from around 3800 BC to the present. Documenting thousands of years of human history across the entire world is an extremely difficult task, and no one could realistically include every society, culture, or civilization. The creator also clearly acknowledges that there will be inaccuracies, simplifications, and oversimplifications because of the scale of the project, which I think is fair.



That said, I do not think this works as a balanced “history of world civilization.” Based on the creator’s own description, the video generally leaves areas blank until state-level entities form and focuses on actual control. That is a valid mapping choice, but it means the video is better understood as a map of state-level entities, empires, kingdoms, de facto political control, and border-changing civilizations, not as a full map of world civilization. The issue is not that the creator failed to include every society; that would be impossible. The issue is that when “world history” is shown mostly through empire-style borders and state-level control, it makes Eurasia look historically dense while large parts of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Indigenous societies appear empty or passive until colonial or state borders arrive. This especially matters for Africa and the American continent before 0 AD.



In the Americas, there were major developments such as Caral-Supe/Norte Chico in Peru, roughly 3000–1800 BC; the Valdivia culture in Ecuador, roughly 3500/3800–1500 BC; the Olmec civilization in southern Veracruz and western Tabasco, roughly 1200–400 BC; the Chavín culture in Peru, roughly 900–200 BC; early Maya Preclassic developments in Mesoamerica, with early settlements beginning around 1800 BC and major Preclassic growth by 1000–300 BC; and Zapotec development in Oaxaca, with Monte Albán rising as a major center around 500 BC and continuing long after. North America and the Caribbean should not appear empty either, with examples such as the Adena culture in the Ohio Valley, roughly 500 BC–AD 100; the Dorset culture in Arctic Canada, roughly 500 BC–AD 1500; and the Saladoid culture moving through the Caribbean, roughly 500 BC–AD 500/545.



Africa has a similar issue. Outside of Egypt and North Africa, there were important societies and cultural regions long before European colonial borders, including Kush/Napata-Meroë in Nubia, with the Kingdom of Kush emerging after about 1070 BC, the Napatan period especially important in the first millennium BC, and Meroë becoming central by about 591 BC and especially in the later Meroitic period; the Nok culture in what is now Nigeria, usually dated broadly to the first millennium BC into the early first millennium AD; and early urban development such as Djenné-Djenno in Mali, first permanently occupied around 250 BC. These examples do not mean every society had to be mapped, but they show that much more was happening than the video visually suggests.



The Yaqui/Yoeme are also a useful example of the problem. They may not fit the empire-border model, but that does not mean their homeland around the Río Yaqui in Sonora was historically empty. Their history, like many Indigenous histories, does not begin only when Europeans wrote them down. Archaeology shows long-term Indigenous occupation, agriculture, and river-based settlement in Sonora, and by Spanish contact, the Yaqui were already an established people with villages, agriculture, language, ceremony, territorial identity, and political organization. This is exactly where a state-border map has limits: it can make Indigenous histories invisible, not because nothing was happening, but because those histories do not always appear as formal state borders.



So my critique is not that the creator should have perfectly mapped every Indigenous, African, or ancient American society. My critique is also not that the creator failed to meet their own stated criteria; in many ways, the video seems to be doing what it set out to do. My critique is about framing. If the map is based mainly on state-level entities and actual political control, then it works better as a global border/state-history animation than as a balanced map of world civilization. The project is still incredibly impressive, but the wording matters because “world history” or “world civilization” can unintentionally erase societies whose histories do not fit the state-and-border model.



Once again, I do want to recognize the level of effort, research, and time that went into this map. It is genuinely impressive. My critique is not meant to dismiss the work, but to point out that under these mapping restrictions, especially when labeled as “world history”, certain areas of the world can appear vacant of history. In reality, there was so much happening between 3800 BC and 0 AD across the American continent and many parts of Africa. That is why I think the video is best understood as an impressive global border/state-history animation, rather than a fully balanced map of world civilization.

Crusader Kings 2 soundtrack minutes into the video? Nice. You sir deseve a like and a comment.

Actually, this is a good video because the error was avoided of showing the so-called Holy Roman Empire as a unified state which, unfortunately is done in other history YT videos and instead are shown historically entirely accurate the numerous German small states which is correct because the so-called Holy Roman Empire was a failed state that no longer existed. Unfortunately there is also an error in the video because although the Polish great power is depicted in a single color and labeled In the right way simply as Poland on the left in the video before 1569 but unfortunately, from 1569 onwards, the incorrect designation "Poland-Lithuania" is used for Poland. For this was Poland before 1569 as has been accurately portrayed in this video just as it was also Poland after 1569 because Lithuania was dominated by Poland and was part of the Polish great power and empire. Therefore both after 1569 and before 1569, it was Polish great power and the Polish Empire but not Poland-Lithuania! Consequently, in the legend on the left side next to the map in the video, the name Poland should also have been shown for the period after 1569! This also corresponds to the monochromatic manner in which Poland is depicted in the video both before and after 1569! Just one color for Poland that was the only one that mattered! So, ideally for historical accuracy they should have consistently listed Poland in the legend to the left of the map throughout the entire video!

appreciated the fire emblem music

I find it insane that the Byzantine empire lasted longer than the history books say it did

Insane work