Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History: I Have Some Strong Opinions About It!

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Narration by Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz
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  • @UsefulCharts
    @UsefulCharts9 ай бұрын

    Sign up for a 14-day free trial of MyHeritage now: bit.ly/UsefulCharts_July23

  • @FandersonUfo

    @FandersonUfo

    9 ай бұрын

    more charts please

  • @ron1313

    @ron1313

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes please cover timelines! Funny I just bought the Adams timeline😒

  • @Hadar1991

    @Hadar1991

    9 ай бұрын

    I think that episode on creation dates in different religions could be interesting. Perhaps just Christianity + Judaism could be a whole episode because as far I have checked it varies between 5592 BC and 3761 BC. It would be interesting to know why such big differences in calculations occurs (BTW I believe that Universe was created 13.787±0.020 billion years ago, so I am not a Young Earth Creationism, but I just wonder why those disparities in calculations occurred).

  • @tommy-er6hh

    @tommy-er6hh

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Hadar1991 Part of it is how you read the Tanakh/Bible. Bishop Ussher read it as a western style chronology with no symbolism, nothing left out. He got about 4000 BC. Similarly the some Jewish Scholars used similar methods to get 3761 BC as thr Official Jewish beginning of calendar, when world was created. But others read the same matter trying to read the way the authors intended it be written according to the style of writings of the day, and get longer timelines. For example Genesis Creation has 2 accounts which is written in the way old egyptian writings, each account stressing different themes. Others hit the high points of families, leaving out the dull in between generations.

  • @yvonnesehoueto5869

    @yvonnesehoueto5869

    9 ай бұрын

    I assume MyHeritage is only for European's descents... I doubt they can retrace the genealogy of an young african women like me...

  • @emmafvsmith
    @emmafvsmith9 ай бұрын

    Please do more videos about your old charts! It would be a fascinating series!

  • @theshenpartei

    @theshenpartei

    9 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @PrinzDerNarren

    @PrinzDerNarren

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes Please!

  • @davidemaschio826

    @davidemaschio826

    9 ай бұрын

    yes, please!

  • @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    9 ай бұрын

    No Please Don't Cover more Vintage Timelines. I love Vintage Timelines, and all you have to Say about them is Bad. You might say: "You don't Have to watch!" But I say: By doing so, you are still feeding the rest of the People False Information and I don't Like That. Please, Any other video but that.

  • @skandababy

    @skandababy

    8 ай бұрын

    He didn't even do a video on THIS chart... he just ranted for 20 minutes about the chart not being historically accurate... something basically obvious. It was a striking looking chart, it would have been nice to know more about the actual chart... to know more about what it IS, instead of what it ISN'T.

  • @AncientAmericas
    @AncientAmericas9 ай бұрын

    Seeing that truck at 6:58 makes me think that there are random moments in Matt's day where he stands up and yells "Quick! To the Useful Chartsmobile!" and speeds off into the distance to save rare charts.

  • @yondie491

    @yondie491

    9 ай бұрын

    I wouldn't want to live in a world where that's NOT the case

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    Totally happens.

  • @mythreepants

    @mythreepants

    9 ай бұрын

    *cartoon zoom and spin effect

  • @EH23831

    @EH23831

    9 ай бұрын

    Heheheee 😂😂

  • @zitools

    @zitools

    9 ай бұрын

    Nice to see AncientAmericas out here. Love your channel also.

  • @kenj0418
    @kenj04189 ай бұрын

    Noah: We need to build a giant boat and load two of every animal onto it. Gramps, you are in charge of the unicorns and the dinosaurs. Methuselah: I'm too old for this crap. *(dies)*

  • @isthatrubble

    @isthatrubble

    9 ай бұрын

    ..... okay this is gold

  • @NAATHAAN

    @NAATHAAN

    9 ай бұрын

    Wait…where’s my father Lamech. (Mesopotamian Trial) Judge: For killing a young man I sentence you to life in prison Lamech: I’m sorry but you got the wrong person

  • @scripturequest

    @scripturequest

    9 ай бұрын

    Unicorns are just single horned rhinos

  • @NAATHAAN

    @NAATHAAN

    9 ай бұрын

    @@scripturequest no they are not, they are horses with built-in knives

  • @scipioafricanus5871

    @scipioafricanus5871

    9 ай бұрын

    @@NAATHAAN Unicorns are of course horses with one-point headed antlers.

  • @irontsubaki
    @irontsubaki9 ай бұрын

    13:08 the fact that they marked GREECE as "half-civilized" even though they considered it the birthplace of civilization at the time is funny to me in a twisted way

  • @TauGeneration

    @TauGeneration

    9 ай бұрын

    i asssume because when this map was made (which was in 1827) greece was still part of the otoman empire and therefore had to color it as "half-civilized ". if it was made 4 years later *maybe* they would color it as " "civilized" ". and i'm double quoting it because i don't trust enough 19th century englishmen on writing that greece was "civilized"

  • @henrygaida7048

    @henrygaida7048

    9 ай бұрын

    Not only that, but the Russian Empire is mostly "Barbarian" and "Savage": which, I assume, would not have pleased Catherine the Great.

  • @ananas_anna

    @ananas_anna

    9 ай бұрын

    @@henrygaida7048that’s because the Indigenous Russian populations weren’t seen as the same way White European Russians were.

  • @saosaosson6139

    @saosaosson6139

    9 ай бұрын

    Greece lost their civilised title when the Turks invaded and occupied it

  • @TauGeneration

    @TauGeneration

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Markusctfldl i think by "indigenous" , which is the most corporately politically correct word you can use, means the non Russian populations in Siberia

  • @TheYuccaPlant
    @TheYuccaPlant9 ай бұрын

    Matt Baker, i just want to mention how i appreciate your speech skills. People from my country don't speak English too well but i can always share your videos to them because it's always understandable. And even upping the video speed to x1.5 doesn't ruin it so thank you for that.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    Thanks. I think's it's partly due to the fact that I used to teach ESL.

  • @Android_Warrior

    @Android_Warrior

    9 ай бұрын

    Hey Yucca, where are you from?

  • @helenat2446

    @helenat2446

    9 ай бұрын

    I find your voice and cadence so soothing. Please consider just reading history books for people fall asleep to. 😄

  • @_mark_3814

    @_mark_3814

    9 ай бұрын

    @@helenat2446I am not a history guy really but I always find myself listening to this guy late at night when I’m about to sleep

  • @thescoobymike
    @thescoobymike9 ай бұрын

    I love the chart that depicts history as rivers! That’s so clever and more accurate in a way than regular charts

  • @michaelodonnell824

    @michaelodonnell824

    9 ай бұрын

    Except that it assumes the "New" overwrites the "Old" - And that's generally NOT what happens. Just as an example, the many branches of Alexander's Greek Empire being subsumed into the Roman Empire - except that wasn't what happened - Greek became the lingua franca of the (Eastern) Roman Empire; Greek Gods (albeit with Latin names) became Roman Gods; and wealthy Romans deliberately employed (or enslaved!) Greek tutors to turn their children (sons) into little Greeks - and all this while a unified Empire was ruled from Rome - later on, the successor Empire went full Greek. So should it not be Rome being subsumed by Greece??? Or another example - the Norman French invaded and conquered Anglo Saxon England, yet within a couple of centuries, the descendants of the Conquerors were describing themselves as Anglo Saxons and speaking (ye olde) English...

  • @thescoobymike

    @thescoobymike

    9 ай бұрын

    @@michaelodonnell824 i like how it looks visually. I didn’t mean the contents of the chart were historically accurate, I meant the concept of history as rivers seems more true to reality than simple lines.

  • @michaelodonnell824

    @michaelodonnell824

    9 ай бұрын

    @@thescoobymike I think I understand what you are saying but, from what I understand about Ancient History, what we have traditionally seen as the replacement theory of Empires (wiping out the old and replacing it with the new), is today better understood as a possible new ruling caste, possibly influencing the culture, but the vast majority of the people being and remaining what they were for Centuries beforehand. Moreover, what historians understood as a "pure", "new" culture was often a syncretism of many different (both older and newer) cultures...

  • @thescoobymike

    @thescoobymike

    9 ай бұрын

    @@michaelodonnell824 no one is denying that

  • @onewingedangel9189

    @onewingedangel9189

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@michaelodonnell824I actually see it as doing the opposite; when rivers merge, one doesn't replace the other. This shows the continuity of civilizations far better than terminating lines.

  • @leontrotsky7816
    @leontrotsky78169 ай бұрын

    I agree that even if you think Young Earth Creationism is a hill you must die on, getting Egyptian pharaohs wildly out of sequence shouldn't be. Also, I'd definitely watch more videos like this.

  • @shehannanayakkara4162

    @shehannanayakkara4162

    7 ай бұрын

    The Egyptian pharoahs are horribly placed lol, not mentioned in the video but you can see Ozymandias as the 3rd ever Egyptian pharaoh, not long after the Tower of Babel. Ozymandias is just the Greek name for Ramesses II, the New Kingdom pharaoh who was already wrongly placed as mentioned in the video.

  • @thomasrinschler6783
    @thomasrinschler67839 ай бұрын

    Cheops (as well as Chephren and Mycerinus who are right after him on this chart) is very likely put so late because Herodotus, whose history of Egypt, while garbled, tends to get the pharaohs he mentions usually in the right order, somehow really misplaced the builders of the Great Pyramids and put them much later than where they should be, just before the Nubian conquest of Egypt. Basically, the Egyptian part of the chart looks like a rather bizarre synthesis of Herodotus, the Bible, Greek myths, and random other archaeological discoveries from the time before the chart was made.

  • @MrCosinuus

    @MrCosinuus

    8 ай бұрын

    Most usefull chart ehm comment!

  • @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    3 ай бұрын

    It isn't put so late because of Herodotus, but rather because of Ussher himself (not that I agree with him). Ussher claims that the pyramids were built during a 15-year dodecarchy, based on a misinterpreted passage in Diodorus. What Diodorus was ACTUALLY Talking about was the fact that Esarheddon, king of Assyria, invaded Egypt, drove Taharka south, and set up a government of 12 petty kings in Egypt. This happened in 671 BC, and after 15 years, Psamtik I reconquered it all. But there is absolutely no evidence that the Pyramids were built during this time period. Actually, there is evidence to the contrary.

  • @Wkumar07
    @Wkumar079 ай бұрын

    Even if this particular timeline is out of date (which is most certainly is) it serves as an artifact of how past humans understood history and their place in it.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    Yup.

  • @Wkumar07

    @Wkumar07

    9 ай бұрын

    @@UsefulCharts thank you for such an excellent channel! I recommend it to my friends who love history.

  • @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    9 ай бұрын

    This Timeline is Not out of Date. There is No Such Thing as "Out-Of-Date" History.

  • @Wkumar07

    @Wkumar07

    9 ай бұрын

    @@user-yy2mu9qm7g history is constantly being reassessed and looked at differently.

  • @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Wkumar07 You Realize the OLDER Sources are More Reliable... Right? Because Last time I Checked, The People who lived Closer to the Event know MORE about the Event Than WE EVER will! It's Like This: A Person Will Know their own Parents MORE than their Great-Grandchildren EVER will! You Would THINK that The People Knew what Happened as a Certain event is Going on. That said, People Are UTTERLY BRAINWASHED Into THINKING, into FEELING, that Archaeology is How we can Know History, When we can KNOW what Happened by Looking at Eye-Witness Accounts!

  • @Emymagdalena
    @Emymagdalena9 ай бұрын

    1:08 oh my god, that “Birds Eye view of the life of Christ” is so appealing to look at. Since religious history does so well on your channel, I’d love to see you walk through this map

  • @chris_troiano
    @chris_troiano9 ай бұрын

    Yay, I like when Matt has strong opinions.

  • @Mikebumpful

    @Mikebumpful

    9 ай бұрын

    I agree! And the fact that he's normally so inclusive and diplomatic makes it all the more poignant when he does!

  • @mlmielke

    @mlmielke

    9 ай бұрын

    Whether or not realizing, Matt did refute the claims of only 6,000 years for earth to exist in this video. And well, it is true that the begats don't mean what many Christians say they mean, that is, they don't mean immediate offspring, but are showing how long a generation was before our days were reduced to 120 and averaging about 70. A generation before the flood... well, it was hundreds of years, and includes offspring not even mentioned between the begats; now it's only dozens of years.

  • @GordonWrigley
    @GordonWrigley9 ай бұрын

    I sincerely believe your timeline of world history should be on the wall of every history class room and every lesson should start with the teacher pointing at it and saying "today we are talking about stuff that was happening here on the chart. I wanted this for years before I saw your chart and your chart is what I imagined it to be.

  • @scipioafricanus5871

    @scipioafricanus5871

    9 ай бұрын

    So future pupils will survive on a teaching diet of history frozen in the 1870s with Biblical antediluvian history make it out for human pre-history, 90% Eurocentric and outright racist approach to human biology?

  • @MarsJenkar
    @MarsJenkar9 ай бұрын

    I think that if there is an educational application for this chart, it's as a viewpoint of how some people in the Victorian era saw history, even if it's not a good view of history itself.

  • @unchartedsteppes7138

    @unchartedsteppes7138

    9 ай бұрын

    Of course! Historiography is something that people should study and appreciate, but it's important to divorce that from our understanding of History.

  • @ems4884
    @ems48849 ай бұрын

    I love the look of that chart. It's a shame no one seems to have bothered doing a historically accurate revision.

  • @gusto8069

    @gusto8069

    9 ай бұрын

    No it's not, that chart is it's own history lmao

  • @javindhillon6294
    @javindhillon62949 ай бұрын

    My Grandpa gave me a copy of this. I gave up trying to understand it after the first page

  • @theshenpartei

    @theshenpartei

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeah it looks like a mess and a over complicated one at that

  • @orktv4673

    @orktv4673

    9 ай бұрын

    AMONG US

  • @DeRoest
    @DeRoest9 ай бұрын

    I had one of these that I obsessed over as a thirteen year old. I learned a lot of the broad strokes of ME and European history and I made my own timelines in the same style for fictional worlds. I really like the nation-river concept and the information density of this chart and hope a modern chart maker can make one as aesthetically pleasing and informative as this one ought to be.

  • @TurtleMarcus
    @TurtleMarcus9 ай бұрын

    I think that Egyptian histography (i.e. how people told Egyptian history throughout the ages) is almost as interesting as Egyptian history itself.

  • @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    @user-yy2mu9qm7g

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeeeaaahhh.... I can see that!

  • @-Gorbi-
    @-Gorbi-9 ай бұрын

    I’ve had this chart on my wall for almost a decade, I eventually realized how limited/erroneous it was, but was always confused by the 1995 publishing date. 150 years ago makes so much sense!

  • @AdamNisbett
    @AdamNisbett9 ай бұрын

    I grew up with a version of this that extended to modern day but mostly only used it to look at the timeline of biblical characters and more modern European history, which as I understand it it handles reasonably well. It definitely isn’t reliable for the other portions of the world though and I noted that fairly early and so didn’t pay much attention to them.

  • @AdamNisbett

    @AdamNisbett

    9 ай бұрын

    I actually went back and pulled out the one I grew up with (called The Wall Chart of World History) and it has edited versions of a lot of the ancient history bits that Matt points out as way out of date like some of the earliest rulers of Egypt. There’s still a lot that is still out of date in my version but perhaps not quite as out of date as the 19th century version. But it is still largely based on the Edward Hull revision and is still a Victorian European biased view of history.

  • @betterthanamasterofone4451
    @betterthanamasterofone44519 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I find your charts fascinating. Not only the charts, but also your narration. One thing I would like to see is a chart/timeline of Rock music. It's always been interesting to me how different rock groups grew out of or were strongly influenced by other groups and/or musicians. I think that would be a great one.

  • @scipioafricanus5871

    @scipioafricanus5871

    9 ай бұрын

    That pattern would look like a chart that portrays sects splitting off from mainline Protestantism, i. e. very chaotic I imagine.

  • @tmhood

    @tmhood

    8 ай бұрын

    Someone's already done that, it's called "Rock Family Trees" if I remember correctly, and is fascinating.

  • @alexdale8705
    @alexdale87059 ай бұрын

    I went to a school where they taught young earth creationism. My middle school teacher had this on his wall and I always wondered about it. Great video!

  • @terencechong6730
    @terencechong67309 ай бұрын

    Love your work! Unless we're looking at different versions of the chart, the Buddha is visible as "Gari-Ta-Ma (Sakya Muni) Buddha", just under the Athens label during the Greco-Persian Wars period. 00:12:29

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    Ah! There he is! Good catch.

  • @Kavanaugh_Kohls
    @Kavanaugh_Kohls9 ай бұрын

    This was extremely interesting! Exactly the sort of content I'd expect from this channel, while still being a breath of fresh air.

  • @bongmuon
    @bongmuon9 ай бұрын

    I really wish there was a website that laid out the history of the world with vetted citations that was updated as new discoveries were made. Would be so valuable to understand history for those that like visual representations like this chart. May even help see holes in our knowledge and areas that would benefit from further study.

  • @GeorgeS1958

    @GeorgeS1958

    9 ай бұрын

    It truly would be helpful especially to those not well versed in history they could look at it and discover important events that they had no clue of

  • @Akrafena

    @Akrafena

    9 ай бұрын

    yup

  • @january1may

    @january1may

    9 ай бұрын

    I've seen some websites that attempted to do universal timelines like that. The problem is mostly that there's _so much stuff_ that you pretty much have to either pick and choose what to include, or have your timeline so bloated that it would be absolutely useless (and then, in the later parts, still pick and choose, if you want it legible at all). What counts as an important enough historical event to be included in the history? Would it depend on how much records we have from the area at all? If so, how? There'd be tons of complicated rules about it and it would probably end up with a huge slant anyway. (In addition, the "vetted citations" bit might be tricky; AFAIK, a lot of what's thought to be well-established history actually goes back to very obscure and/or very cursory research, and most sources just quote from each other. Unless they did the entire reasoning basically from scratch, your vetted citation might well itself depend on a source that quoted something that shouldn't have been trusted.) For a lower threshold of "vetted citations", I suppose the year/decade/century pages at Wikipedia are trying to do something similar to this...

  • @only_fair23

    @only_fair23

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@january1mayThe problem is that now you have to please everybody rather than just white people.

  • @Duffyyy94
    @Duffyyy949 ай бұрын

    I can't get enough of your videos and every time you upload I get excited which is currently the only channel on YT that does that for me. Ty

  • @SaszaDerRoyt
    @SaszaDerRoyt9 ай бұрын

    I think an interesting case where this chart could be used as historical reference would be in getting a better understanding of the historical worldview of people in the time it was made, for example if you are writing a fictional story set in the 19th century and you have a character who is a historian or learning history, it could be a great reference to use to figure out how and what they would be learning in that context

  • @odonnelldenise

    @odonnelldenise

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes. Thank you for saying so. I find it infantile and condescending to slap the term "racist" on period pieces.

  • @SaszaDerRoyt

    @SaszaDerRoyt

    6 ай бұрын

    @@odonnelldenise don't get me wrong, the understanding of the world that many people had in the past absolutely was racist, no ifs or buts about it. But studying and accurately depicting past worldviews, even with the unfortunate racist sides, is important to understanding the state of the world and education at the time. It doesn't excuse the wrongs of the past, just puts them into context

  • @justinpeterson9734
    @justinpeterson97349 ай бұрын

    another great video!! You have a gift of explaining all sides of history respectfully. truly enjoy your videos

  • @alohatigers1199
    @alohatigers11999 ай бұрын

    I like the visuals of rivers flowing down. It makes sense. When a river merge to another river, it’s still a river.

  • @scipioafricanus5871

    @scipioafricanus5871

    9 ай бұрын

    and since the Ancient Greeks time has been a river too.

  • @theeth3242
    @theeth32429 ай бұрын

    This was really cool, I'd love to see you delve more into your collection of old charts and show us some of the more interesting ones

  • @listentomerantaboutuseless34
    @listentomerantaboutuseless349 ай бұрын

    very interesting content as per usual, I for one would love to see other vintage historical charts. it's important not just to know the past but to know how our perceptions of the past have changed over time.

  • @fuizenfred
    @fuizenfred5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for reviewing the charts. The charts and your discussion points are very interesting.

  • @stevenglowacki8576
    @stevenglowacki85769 ай бұрын

    I just saw the thumbnail and had to post that I absolutely loved this chart as a kid, first seeing it in my elementary school. I eventually got one for myself at home. I look forward to you absolutely wrecking it, because I'm sure it's wildly inaccurate for a ton of different reasons. But it looked so neat!

  • @jacquelineandrade3281
    @jacquelineandrade32819 ай бұрын

    Loved this video! I hadn't really heard about this timeline, but I feel like I've seen it before during my early years at a Catholic school. Would love to see more videos about timelines like this!

  • @marcusaurelius4941
    @marcusaurelius49419 ай бұрын

    I only recently discovered this chart and what a coincedence to see it covered here! It's really fascinating as a historical artefact, but I'm quite surprised and puzzled to know that someone actually uses it as a genuine information source

  • @potato_nugget
    @potato_nugget9 ай бұрын

    It would be really nice to have an expanded version of your timeline charts

  • @flintfireforge6781
    @flintfireforge67819 ай бұрын

    I'm a relative new comer, but you folks absolutely know how to scratch the itch I have in regards to learning more and more about history. One thing I ask, even tho it's a bit "off topic" compared some current posting would be a history of Armenia. I'm 1/4 Armenian and the fact that they are one of the world's oldest people is often over looked. Thanks for what you do!

  • @runawayshay6409

    @runawayshay6409

    9 ай бұрын

    Epimetheus did an Armenia video awhile back.

  • @danielsweb2
    @danielsweb28 ай бұрын

    I've the "Barnes and Noble" version that you mentioned towards the end since 1998! I'm no historian and yet I had enough sense to know that it was more of a cool art piece, maybe something to use to get hints for what parts of history to deep dive on using other source material, than as a source itself. This was a great video, thanks for putting it together!

  • @travellingbarrett
    @travellingbarrett9 ай бұрын

    Fantastic analysis. Definitely make more like this.

  • @4vesta255
    @4vesta2559 ай бұрын

    I have this book from the Third Millennium Press, it was a gift from my uncle. I sometimes look through it as a sort layman’s summary of Biblical history. Though the Tower of Babel bit does raise the question why China was included with the Near Easterners when India wasn’t, as they were pretty similarly powerful civilisations, and India was closer, and Indians were considered more anthropologically similar to Europeans.

  • @TheCooperAX
    @TheCooperAX6 ай бұрын

    I bought this chart years ago in a hard cover book format on a discount table at Barns and Nobel. Thanks for explaining it.

  • @Otto910
    @Otto9109 ай бұрын

    We had this chart in our school library when I was a kid and always loved it. So I just had to pick it up when I saw it for just 3€ at a thrift store recently. Although I have to admit that I was quite shocked seeing some of the questionable decisions made, now that I have studied history. But still a visually very appealing chart.

  • @miketacos9034
    @miketacos90349 ай бұрын

    This is actually very useful, I’d love more timeline reviews!

  • @kirandeepchakraborty7921
    @kirandeepchakraborty79219 ай бұрын

    Very interesting episode indeed. So important that we have these conversations.

  • @amandamoore7694
    @amandamoore76949 ай бұрын

    Years ago (before I found your channel) I was looking for a large history of the world map for my history classroom. I was so excited when I found this timeline on Amazon until I noticed the things you pointed out in the video. Definitely not good for an education environment!! Your collection looks fascinating and I would love to see more old charts/timelines please!

  • @KalebPeters99
    @KalebPeters999 ай бұрын

    I would totally ADORE more videos about the history of history timelines! Perhaps a meta-chart is in order?

  • @helder1340
    @helder13409 ай бұрын

    my, my; you are a jewel. A really rare one indeed. Keep up with your work and I'll keep watching.

  • @raphaelnikolaus0486
    @raphaelnikolaus04869 ай бұрын

    So enlightening and educational!

  • @samhodson2821
    @samhodson28219 ай бұрын

    Great video. I would love to see more like this!

  • @elialit123
    @elialit123Ай бұрын

    Loved this video. We want more. When you make a map like this yourself, tell us. Im going to preorder one

  • @DebPercy
    @DebPercy9 күн бұрын

    fascinating. I love old charts and would love more like this.

  • @npgibson69
    @npgibson699 ай бұрын

    Love the classic, information dense, style of this chart. A lot of charts these days look like they were designed for PowerPoint. Matt, perhaps you could produce a video commentary on the famous timeline, Napoleonic France’s Invasion of Russia by Charles Joseph Minard, 1869.

  • @jmwild1
    @jmwild19 ай бұрын

    I had this as a huge foldout when I was young (folded into a book binder). I was fascinated by the style and artwork but never took it seriously.

  • @iporadasilvahaeser8616
    @iporadasilvahaeser86169 ай бұрын

    Awesome, I sure would enjoy more of this kind o content, well researched and balanced.

  • @Davidharicourt
    @Davidharicourt8 ай бұрын

    This is great! Always such quality work. Thank you

  • @theshenpartei
    @theshenpartei9 ай бұрын

    I agree you should do a whole video on vintage charts

  • @diansc7322
    @diansc73229 ай бұрын

    OMGGG this chart was literally my childhood lol, I love that you covered it 💞

  • @reillycurran8508
    @reillycurran85089 ай бұрын

    I'd be incredibly interested in seeing what something like this extending back to when modern humans first developed and following major people groups in this parting and merging river delta style would look like. It sounds almost like one of those grand projects of codifying religious orthodoxy you hear about in stories of antiquity. I can't help but think it'd be a much more valuable format of textbooking than the system often employed that treats different kingdoms and empires as their own worlds and only acknowledges the outside world when it becomes impossible to just ignore.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader86019 ай бұрын

    love the vibrant colours of this map and its very detailed

  • @DramaticDialogue
    @DramaticDialogue9 ай бұрын

    @usefulcharts I love seeing the old charts and exploring the point of views of their creators. I’d love to see a chart on the history of theatre and could end with a chart of west end and Broadway shows and their runs

  • @rmt3589
    @rmt35899 ай бұрын

    Awesome and inspiring chart! Was surprised to realize I wasn't subscribed, but I fixed that.

  • @Stoneworks
    @Stoneworks9 ай бұрын

    Yes please more videos like this. I am a fan

  • @LMHSim
    @LMHSim9 ай бұрын

    Would actually enjoy reviews of other world charts. Thanks for this very interesting video

  • @nikolaytsankov9066
    @nikolaytsankov90669 ай бұрын

    15:51 - Today I learned that Ozymandias (who has absolutely nothing to do with Ramses II apparently) was the 2nd ruler of Egypt and lived long before the first pyramids were built

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    Nooooooooooooo :)

  • @TacticusPrime

    @TacticusPrime

    9 ай бұрын

    I actually looked it up because of this chart and learned that the Greek name Ozymandias derives from Ramses II throne name, User-Maat-Ra Setep-en-Ra. Even bad charts can lead to real curiosity. The real tragedy is when people just accept the silly assertions of religious leaders.

  • @asa1342

    @asa1342

    9 ай бұрын

    Nothing beside remains

  • @Luvias0415
    @Luvias04159 ай бұрын

    I would love to see more old history charts!

  • @Nepsis
    @Nepsis9 ай бұрын

    Great presentation as always, Matt. Your channel came to mind yesterday as I was listening to Philosophize This! and wondering about a chart illustrating various key philosophers over time and arranged by their respective parts of the world (much like your Timeline of World History that hangs on my wall). When I searched for something like that, I only found western philosophers. If you're looking for a new project, this would be a super useful chart!

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    It's been on my to-do list for years. I do hope I eventually have the time to do something like that.

  • @Nepsis

    @Nepsis

    9 ай бұрын

    @@UsefulCharts Cool! I'll keep an eye out, and will enjoy plenty other excellent charts and videos in the meantime, I'm sure.

  • @MikaEfrat1

    @MikaEfrat1

    9 ай бұрын

    @@UsefulCharts to the both of you. This fantastic book does exactly that and features various charts to elucidate: The Sociology of Philosophies by Randall Collins. - Though, it's certainly not a quick read and a UsefulCharts makeover would be welcomed.

  • @Nepsis

    @Nepsis

    9 ай бұрын

    @@MikaEfrat1 Thanks, I'll check it out.

  • @wtvdam
    @wtvdam9 ай бұрын

    I was wondering if you could do a chart about the ancient Greek heroes? Where do characters like Perseus, Heracles, Achilles, and other heroes fall in relation to each other and their legendary deeds?

  • @tobuslieven
    @tobuslieven9 ай бұрын

    10:36 We know at least 10 times more about world history now than we did in Adams' day, so we should make a chart at least 10 times bigger than his one.

  • @yrobtsvt

    @yrobtsvt

    9 ай бұрын

    You first!

  • @tobuslieven

    @tobuslieven

    9 ай бұрын

    @@yrobtsvt : )

  • @Merecir

    @Merecir

    9 ай бұрын

    Make a crowd sourced tool and you got it in a week.

  • @LSOP-
    @LSOP-9 ай бұрын

    I had this as a kid! Even then I could find issues with it. I can definitely see it's influence on you.

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat9 ай бұрын

    16:00 The chart actually lists the first pharaoh as "MIZRAIM or MENES descdt. of HAM." Menes is the traditional name for the first pharaoh, and modern scholars identify him with Narmer. Alternatively, if Narmer didn't unify Egypt himself, then Menes might be his successor Hor-Aha. So the chart gets that part kind of right. The inclusion of Busiris is silly, though.

  • @bgd6333
    @bgd63339 ай бұрын

    Hi Matt, what a chart, I have been through it and it leaves me with a lot of questions. But as you mentioned its made with the knowledge people had in the victorian age. Most surprising is that they use the roman names for the greek gods and deities. anyway great vid, please do more and maybe even an in depth one?

  • @isthatrubble

    @isthatrubble

    9 ай бұрын

    I think generally western europeans tended to see rome as superior to greece at that time, which is probably why they used the roman names

  • @wishgodgirl1903
    @wishgodgirl19039 ай бұрын

    Very interesting subject I never have given much thought to before but really got me thinking 🤔

  • @jungletunes3923
    @jungletunes39239 ай бұрын

    Man you do fascinating works.

  • @mahatmarandy5977
    @mahatmarandy59779 ай бұрын

    When I was in Bible college, my school bought one of the variations of this time chart and put it up on the wall. They were a little harder to come by in those days. Anyway, this one had clearly been modified by some Mormons, who added a big section of phony Mormon history, which the people in my Bible college did not notice until quite a few years later on. Which was pretty funny all the way around.

  • @darreljones8645

    @darreljones8645

    9 ай бұрын

    I've seen that version. Among other things, they placed the Garden of Eden in northwestern Missouri.

  • @mahatmarandy5977

    @mahatmarandy5977

    9 ай бұрын

    @@darreljones8645 bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! The hilarious thing is how long it took the school to notice

  • @joekanicki5306
    @joekanicki53069 ай бұрын

    That property is amazing! What a great result, just terrific!

  • @Treviisolion
    @Treviisolion9 ай бұрын

    It'd be interesting to see an actual modern version of something like this. A large, detailed chart of all the known civilizations and cultures that have existed throughout time utilizing modern historian understanding of historical events, separated by chronology and geography, showing influences and geographical extent throughout time. Maybe even some small trivia on some of the civilizations when there's some important piece that can't be easily shown on the map. Maybe make it 21 ft long to account for the extra history that has happened.

  • @only_fair23

    @only_fair23

    6 ай бұрын

    And make it racist as well

  • @Treviisolion

    @Treviisolion

    6 ай бұрын

    @@only_fair23 umm no. That’d make it worse than useless

  • @szepmagyarorszag4267
    @szepmagyarorszag42679 ай бұрын

    I have a copy of this timeline from vacation, and this helps solve the question I saw in it.

  • @elpookay
    @elpookay9 ай бұрын

    thank you calling out this chart out, some people still think this is educational and push it as that. It is historical only in so far as how ethnocentrism can continue to be reinforced.

  • @robertbreedlovecraft
    @robertbreedlovecraft9 ай бұрын

    6:58 I had no clue there was an official Useful Charts-mobile

  • @AlinaKind
    @AlinaKind9 ай бұрын

    Love your work

  • @jry3270
    @jry32709 ай бұрын

    I have this chart in a giant book at home! Love it!

  • @krcmaine
    @krcmaine9 ай бұрын

    Yes! More historic charts!

  • @douglasgriffin694
    @douglasgriffin6949 ай бұрын

    Totally down for more historical chart videos!

  • @anonnymousperson
    @anonnymousperson9 ай бұрын

    Matt Baker here trying to discredit the competition.

  • @JuniorFanCirca1989

    @JuniorFanCirca1989

    9 ай бұрын

    Except he regularly shouts out good maps/creators.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    I think discrediting something from 150 years ago is fair game. I wouldn't do the same to a modern designer.

  • @anonnymousperson

    @anonnymousperson

    9 ай бұрын

    @@UsefulCharts Agreed and agreed. I think my humor fell flat. Apologies if you felt I was calling you out.

  • @amazinggrace5692
    @amazinggrace56929 ай бұрын

    Great vid. Do more!

  • @BalthasarCarduelis
    @BalthasarCarduelis9 ай бұрын

    8:46 You might consider publishing a chart which compares the two different timelines generated from the Masoretic versus the Septuagint texts with their differing ages for these patriarchs.

  • @TheSweeeeeetz
    @TheSweeeeeetz9 ай бұрын

    Great video!! Have you looked at the piri reis map?

  • @helenagreenpine1496
    @helenagreenpine14969 ай бұрын

    I love these vintage charts :)

  • @markadams7046
    @markadams70469 ай бұрын

    I actually owned this one at one time, but had to give up a bunch of books that I owned, when I moved in the early 2000s.

  • @GregorSchafroth
    @GregorSchafroth9 ай бұрын

    Great video!!! Love it :)

  • @thepatriarchy819
    @thepatriarchy8199 ай бұрын

    As a southern baptist, this chart is right under the Bible in significance.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    Does that mean that Southern Baptists still use this chart regularly? Or just Ussher's chronology in general?

  • @thepatriarchy819

    @thepatriarchy819

    9 ай бұрын

    @@UsefulCharts Usshers chronology. The chart is rarely used, and barely known. Yet, all of our beliefs correspond with the chart perfectly.

  • @zhazhagab0r

    @zhazhagab0r

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@UsefulChartsIn my experience, both. And not just Southern Baptists, but other Baptist groups as well.

  • @Hadar1991

    @Hadar1991

    9 ай бұрын

    I think that episode on creation dates in different religions could be interesting. Perhaps just Christianity + Judaism could be a whole episode because as far I have checked it varies between 5592 BC and 3761 BC. It would be interesting to know why such big differences in calculations occurs (BTW I believe that Universe was created 13.787±0.020 billion years ago, so I am not a Young Earth Creationism, but I just wonder why those disparities in calculations occurred).@@UsefulCharts

  • @RachaelMarieNewport

    @RachaelMarieNewport

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@UsefulCharts unfortunately in several of the US states they are trying to go backwards to this type of racist history. It's so disheartening 😢 As someone who fits in a few different marginalized groups, though not racial groups, I grew up with the whole Few Great Men theory with perfect 2 dimensional people to study and very much a Eurocentric view of world history. I lucked out since my parents and others loved history and other social sciences so I was introduced to more than just what was tqught in K 12 in my California small town during the 70s and early 80s. I graduated high school in 1983.

  • @curtisdaniel9294
    @curtisdaniel92949 ай бұрын

    I once tried the math version of Genesis to see all the dates, lifetimes and their relationships. Not easy. But doable.

  • @ben8557
    @ben85579 ай бұрын

    Do more of these!

  • @danadominguez5760
    @danadominguez57609 ай бұрын

    Great video. Thank you! Makes me think of Clarence Larkens’ chart: Gods Dispensational and Prophetic Plan.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    9 ай бұрын

    I LOVE Clarence Larkin! I don't agree with him but I LOVE his chart style!

  • @mijofaces
    @mijofaces9 ай бұрын

    Please do more videos!

  • @debraturner4559
    @debraturner45598 ай бұрын

    Oh, I learned about charts I had never heard of, cool!

  • @axelbrass5858
    @axelbrass58589 ай бұрын

    I have this chart on my wall in my “mancave.” I had it fastened like wall paper. I agree it’s not accurate but it is fairly good for many many things.

  • @chuckw8391
    @chuckw83918 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @WillyTheComposerOfficial
    @WillyTheComposerOfficial9 ай бұрын

    Had this as a kid. Used to spend hours and hours staring at it.

  • @yrobtsvt
    @yrobtsvt9 ай бұрын

    There's an updated version of this chart at the exit area of the Creation Museum in Kentucky. It adds the 20th century with an illustration of John F Kennedy saying America is Christian, then America "declines" with various social changes listed, and finally Obama says America is not Christian anymore and that's the end of the chart.