A History of World Population | Urbanization | 3700 BC - 2000 AD 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🗺️

Why does the history of urbanization matter?

Whether it is for timely response to catastrophes, the delivery of disaster relief, assessing human impacts on the environment, or estimating populations vulnerable to hazards, it is essential to know where people and cities are geographically distributed.

Additionally, the ability to geolocate the size and location of human populations OVER TIME helps to understand the evolving characteristics of the human species, especially human interactions with the environment. Now that humans are predominantly an urban species, new questions arise as to how urban populations have changed over time. Where were cities of the past? What were the sizes of these urban populations and how were large and small cities geographically distributed?

Many scholars question the sustainability of contemporary urbanization, arguing that the rates and scales of urbanization today present a new relationship between urbanization and the biosphere. However, in order to contextualize the current period of the urban demographic process and understand its potential future trajectories, data is needed on long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns.

As the authors acknowledge, the data has a number of limitations and is “far from comprehensive.” However, to date there has been no comprehensive record of spatially explicit, historic, city-level population data at the global scale, so this project represents an impressive step forward in understanding how people and cities have historically interacted. In a word: EPIC.

👉 Follow me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DataNinjah/videos

Chapters:
00:00 Sumerian Civilization
Cuneiform Writing Developed
00:10 Bronze Age begins
First Dynasty of Egypt
00:20 Wheeled Vehicles
Rule of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk
00:30 Great Pyramid of Giza
Rise of Indus Valley civilization
00:40 Akkadians establish first empire
Egyptian Middle Kingdom
Middle Minoan Culture
00:50 Iron Age in India
Shang Dynasty
Hittite Empire
01:00 Olmec Civilization
Eastern Woodlands
01:10 Trojan War
Kingdom of Israel and Judah
Assyrian Empire
01:20 Olmecs of Mesoamerica
Cyrus the Great, Persian Empire
Confucius
01:30 Olmec culture ends
Carthage Empire
Alexander the Great
01:40 Great Wall of China
Julius Caesar
01:50 Spice Trade
Roman Empire peak
Mayan Empire
02:00 Golden Age of India
Roman Empire splits
Western Roman Empire falls
02:10 Tang Dynasty
02:20 Muslim conquests
Spread of Islam
02:30 Umayyad Caliphate
02:40 Charlemagne crowned
02:50 Viking conquests
Dark Ages
03:00 Song Dynasty
03:10 Gunpowder
03:20 Kingdom of Nri
03:33 First Crusade, Second Crusade, Third Crusade
04:09 Genghis Khan, Mongol invasions
04:31 The (Spanish) Inquisition
04:44 Mali Empire
05:11 Aztec and Inca civilizations
05:39 Age of Discovery / Exploration
06:04 Ottoman Turks, Constantinople
06:21 Christopher Columbus arrives in Americas
06:41 Atlantic slave trade
07:01 Ottoman Empire
07:18 Spanish Armada defeated
07:41 Dutch found New Amsterdam
07:58 Scientific Revolution
08:12 Black Death / Second Plague
08:27 Second Agricultural Revolution
08:40 Russian Empire
08:57 Industrial Revolution begins
09:13 Flush toilet
09:26 Smallpox vaccine
09:38 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
09:45 Passenger railroad
09:59 California Gold Rush
10:17 Thomas Edison, light bulb
10:31 Oil Boom; Spindletop, TX
10:39 Discovery of nitrogen-based fertilizer
Mass Media is born
10:49 World War II
Decolonization of Africa
10:59 Information Age
World Trade Organization (WTO)
11:06 China joins WTO

📊 Data:
https://urbanization.yale.edu/sites/default/files/sdata201634.pdf

Inspired by:
History of Urbanization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJYXujJ7sU
Human Population Through Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
The History of the World: Every Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Wu0Q7x5D0
World Population: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFjdmp9sZk

#WorldPopulation #Maps #Urbanization #DataVisualization #DataRanking #DataComparison #Timelapse #AnimatedStats

Tracks 🎵:
Militaire Electronic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100442
Artist: http://incompetech.com/