World History Timeline
This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your own here.
The chart is based on Joseph Priestley’s A New Chart of History (1769):
Priestley is best known for his co-discovery of oxygen.
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There's also the Histomap, from 1931, although I imagine its opinions are a bit dated now.
BTW, your first link is to imgur which, frustratingly, no longer works in the UK.
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