Pouring through 424,0000 Wikipedia articles pertaining to historical events, two friends, Garth LloydandTom Martin, created a dynamic visualization of world history according to the social encyclopedia.
What can deduce from their research? Well, according to the visual, it took over 1200 years for anything to really start poppin' outside of Europe. Guess Wikipedia isn't as comprehensive as it seems.
[via Gizmodo]