The Wall Chart of World History: With Maps of the World's Great… (edition 1989)

A reproduction of a 19th century Wall Chart. Citing Genesis 1, the Chart begins with Adam and Eve, and proceeds to depict history unfolding across epochs and centuries by using 14 connecting panels which fold out to 15.5 feet.

Hard to know what to make of the comprehensive concurrence of events. For example, we see that in 432 A.D., Attila rose out of the Empire of the Huns and sacked 70 European cities and at the same time at the opposite end of Europe, St. Patrick landed in Ireland.

Includes reigns of rulers and their "important" battles, history-making inventions, mythical and biblical figures, great monuments and some demographics. Special attention is given to Hebrew and "Christian" events -- the Prophets, the "Exodus", the Babylonian Exile, and the "ten persecutions", the eight Crusades, the twenty ecumenical councils, etc.

The history of women, culture (dance, music, literature, middle class emergence, urbanization, etc) is almost entirely overlooked. Also, while India and Asia are included, the New World and Africa are included as colonies of the European monarchs.

Includes regimes up through 1980's.

This is a great visual resource, with lots of historical markers, and enough interesting tidbits to make it interesting to all.

This is actuallly a fold out chart. It is wonderful because it charts from the very beginning with Adam and Eve! It has Biblical lineage of Christ. This particular chart ends in 1997. This is a good chart for those studying the classical approach to history.