Human Expansion Timeline Map in 1 minute 

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It's funny to think how Madagascar is so close to the place where the first humans emerged and was one of the last places discovered by humans, excluding Antarctica and other extreme places

Humanity gameplay: paying taxes

I'm loving that our ancestors decided that walking/rafting to Australia and North America was a more viable option than moving another 20 feet to go live in France.

Fun fact: it is in discussion if the human expansion to the Americas occured first from Asia to North America (+/- 30k years ago), or from Africa to South America (+/- 50k years ago). Stlements and other discoveries started the debate, and among them is the "Serra da Capivara National Park", a world heritage site declared by UNESCO.

i love how they got into europe but refused to enter france for thousands of years

From 2 billion people, it only took 0.1 seconds to reach 8 billion. That's insane

This sort of video gains a lot from on-screen notes of significant events and periods such as ice ages, sea level changes, great migrations, die-offs, and such.

Imagine being one of the first people to cross Egypt and seeing the Mediterranean

it's amazing how fast the last 2000 years was

damn this really puts population growth into perspective... only the last second we have over a billion

Nepal's mountains are what surprised me the most. They were discovered pretty late in human history. It shows how difficult it is to even explore them.

The Toba volcano eruption 74,000 years ago dropped human population to a few thousand. The timeline here shows a linear increase with no account for that catastrophe.

The Sahara wasn't always desert, it was a green savannah with lakes 11,000 - 5,000 years ago.

This is why I always send a single scout on horseback to the opposite end of the map in

Amazing how much the deserts and mountain areas slowed exploration down. You can see how mankind went up the Nile to find the mediterranean.

Imagine being a small tribe of people, and in some areas it could be decades before you met another large group of people. And they likely didn't speak your language or know anything about you either. Fascinating to think about.

It took those slackers a surprisingly long time to find Madagascar.

I love how humans colectivelly decided that's definitely better to settle in Siberia than Fr*nce

My biggest surprise in this video: 28,000 years ago, there were already humans in Chicago but not Paris.