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Instead of comparing countries by one metric, this animation and series of graphics by Anders Sundell uses 20 different categories of World Bank data to compare countries.
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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European state-formation would have looked very different if rulers did not constantly have to negotiate with a strong clergy, independent townsmen, and the nobility over, inter alia, the wherewithal for warfare, succession and public peace. But the medieval Church shaped European societies in other ways than this. It was the one institution of late antiquity that survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, and it carried the torch of the Roman world after the Empire collapsed.
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
International trade has evolved drastically over the years. While China dominates now, the landscape was much different a few decades ago.