Awesome History

Historical power structures and distributions aren’t exactly casual conversation, but The Power Gap succinctly distills these topics into an animated infographic a-la The Crisis of Credit.

Easily the most rectilinear depiction of 2000-2009 we’ve seen so far, The New York Times’ Picturing The Past Ten Years paints an entire decade with good ol’ rows and columns.

It wasn’t built in a day, but you can watch it in only 22 hours: Rome: The Complete Series includes 10 discs and 22 episodes of the Julius Caesar Sopranos-in-52 B.C. docudrama.

Pedro M. Cruz’ Decline of Empires reduces the top maritime empires of the 19th and 20th centuries (France, Portugal, Spain, and England) to blobs–albeit surprisingly descriptive ones.

Sure, it’s a bit rough around the edges, but Angus McLeod’s WWII: The Simple Version is a funny illustrated primer for anyone who needs to bone up on their history. Thanks, Brian!