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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…

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  • 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.
  • Rowland
    so sad. like the sex pistols said "just another country."
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