Visualizing empires in decline

December 9th, 02009 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.


This video timeline was sent in by Bryan Campen and covers the last 200 years of major world powers.  Fun visualization over time…

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 9th, 02009 at 11:04 am and is filed under Long Term Art.

  • Rowland

    so sad. like the sex pistols said “just another country.”

  • Jon

    I think it’s specifically visualising naval power, so it doesn’t exactly match dates of independence. Also, it’s a limited view of empires (where the Russian, German, USA, etc.)?

    It is pretty, though.

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