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tigrennatenn · 3437 days ago · link · · parent · post: Looking for an interactive timeline of human history, charting various trends
The hardest part of this would be getting the data. What number would you say most represents "technological growth"? Has anyone been tracking that number for the past few centuries? Somewhat related, a friend of mine made this graph. He scraped Wikipedia to find what nations were each other's "predecessors" and "successors," and formed a directed graph showing the breaking up and reformation of nations throughout history. Made possible by the human curation provided by Wikipedia. Probably some of this type of data exists on the Internet if you take the time to trawl for it.