Wait But Why - Horizontal History

This week from the greatest hits: a visual take on history. If you imagine history as a vertical timeline going downwards into the past, we usually study it by examining a single thread and tracing it down—like looking back through the history of science or the history of rulers or the history of some other area. I’m not sure how your brain works, but for mine, viewing history “horizontally”—i.e. taking a single time period and looking at what was happening at that time across the board—gives me a much clearer view of what that time was actually like. Check it out: 


Horizontal History

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