Charting culture

This animation incl. 100s of years of culture into just 5 min.A team of historians&scientists wanted to map cultural mobility,so they tracked the births&deaths of notable individuals like David, King of Israel,&Leonardo da Vinci,fr 600 BC to the present them as a proxy for skills&ideas, their map reveals intellectual hotspots&tracks how empires rise& info comes fr Freebase(Google-owned DB)of well-known people&places,&oth catalogues of notable individuals.