The Human Odyssey project
A curation of History & Geography resources.
What happened when and where.
How it led to what we are today (c).
About the Human Odyssey
A project started with the publication of the Australian textbook “Human Odyssey: From the Ancient to the Modern World” by the History Teachers' Association of Victoria.
It provides a bird's-eye-view of History from 60,000 BCE to the present, to understand how one event let to the next, instead of obsessing on dates and battles.
The Human Odyssey Project continues with the curation of timelines, maps and visuals that help understand what happened where and when.
Ignite Sydney 2024
5 billion years
in 5 minutes
High Level Timeline
Big TL 3000 BC - 2020 with key blocks only
Dual Timeline + Old Maps Online
Big TL 3000 BC - 2020 with key blocks only and World Map per dates from oldmapsonline.org
TL 3000 BC - 500 BC
First civilisations
TL 500 BC - AD 750
Han China, Sui, Tang
India: Maurya, Kushan, Gupta
Parthian, Sassanian
Classical Greece, Rome, fall of Rome
Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Merovingians
Hegira, Umayyad Caliphate, conquest of Iberia
TL AD 750 - 2020
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
Modern Age
World history timeline
The rise and fall of nations
Oxford Cartographers, by Terry Hardaker
“There are people in this room who hate History because of the way we were taught men and battles, written by the victors without any nuance. Instead, the way to think about History is like a bunch of connected systems. Nothing happens in isolation. For example, why do you get a croissant for breakfast in Australia today, and not a Wonton - although we're closer to Asia than France?
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