Charting culture

the great Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was born near Florence known throughout Europe he was employed by the king of France late in his life he died in Omas in the lir D Vinci is one of over a 100,000 notable people whose birthplaces and deathbeds have been mapped in this animation it's the work of a team led by maximilan schik based at the University of Texas the team wanted to chart hundreds of years of culture births are blue deaths are red let's start in the Far East this is 17th century Japan just opening up to the West many of these names are Christian missionaries to the country some persecuted here for their faith in 19th century Australia migration from Europe increases the traffic if you watch this full screen you might make out some names among them the infamous Bush Ranger Ned Kelly born in the 1850s his father was Irish transported to Australia for stealing [Music] pigs back in time now to the Roman Empire there goes Galen physician and surgeon on his way from Greece to settle in Rome the powerful Roman Empire Drew learned people in from all over Europe and Beyond cultural subcenters began to emerge like Cordoba in Spain and Paris and ainong in [Applause] France from the 12th century onwards all roads no longer lead to Rome migrations between other places are common it's a little like a map of Budget Airline destinations as time goes on we can see that Paris attracts far more cultural migrants than other French cities whereas in Germany several centers compete evenly for migrants attention even small towns can be attractive cultural centers look at the coat daour in southern France popular since the late 19th century these data are from free base.com a catalog of well-known people and places owned by Google [Music] in the 1600s many European born explorers looked West striking out to the Americas among them a fur Trader originally from the English Countryside Governors from Spain and France looking after islands in the West Indies and military [Music] men [Music] these are early settlers and Military folk you might recognize some of these names on the left there goes John Washington great-grandfather of George Washington the first president of the United States John was born in Essex England the trend was to move from the rural European Countryside to the burgeoning cities of the US Boston New York Washington hosts to more deaths in red than births in blue but that starts to change look at all the blue now as people build communities and the population on the East Coast [Music] expands most often people move into and along river [Music] valleys from the 18th century onwards gradually look how people are starting to move to the West Coast and living out their days [Music] there that little cluster on the coast is San [Music] Francisco transport links make it easier to get from one Coast to the other first trains and then affordable cars around the 1920s there are still more births than deaths on the East Coast notable people begin to flock to meccas like Hollywood in Los Angeles this depiction makes clearer the pull of the West Coast cultural centers where people move during their [Music] lifetimes and many well-known names look for a Haven for their Twilight years next the team would like to look at how Enlightenment thinking and the religious landscape overlap with their cultural Maps yeah

Channel: nature video

Views: 1,417,575

Keywords: Culture (Website Category), history, world, Leonardo Da Vinci (Visual Artist), Nature, Science (Journal), Freebase, Google, people, ideas, births, deaths, population, migration, animation, worldwide culture, worldwide migration, history of migration, history of ideas, Maximilian Schich, Schich, Mauro Martino, Martino, CultSci

Id: 4gIhRkCcD4U

Length: 5min 37sec (337 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 31 2014