Made this graphic picture with the help of Gemini and ChatGPT. It took me over three weeks, as only three free prompts were allowed on ChatGPT per day.
Every single word displayed was provided in the prompts, yet it still made mistakes. For example, John Locke appears twice, with different pictures. There are errors like that, and some pictures don’t match. But every single written part is correct.
Also, the AIs are a pain. You ask them to change one thing, and they do exactly the opposite, ruining your free prompts and then making you wait another long day. Hence, the shortcomings.
The overall idea was to have a chronological history of IDEAS and some major events that changed the world order.
The top timeline shows the names and time periods of eras – mostly philosophical. I took help from certain books for this, but mainly from Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder.
The bottom timeline is of the Subcontinent. Now, it has to be understood differently because the Subcontinent was not one entity. For example, the Sikh Era (1799–1849) doesn’t cover the entire region but only Punjab, Kashmir, and the surrounding areas. Similarly, I couldn’t include all the other eras of the Rajputs, Marathas, etc. So, if you know some history, you can get an idea of what it means.
The middle part is about people arranged chronologically, from left to right in each line, starting from Abraham AS and ending with Foucault. These are mainly people who changed the world through ideas, religions, theories, and philosophies. Then there are some others who changed the course of history (like Nebuchadnezzar II, Saladin, Hulegu, Lenin, etc.) because of something they did or achieved. Jinnah is also there, because he had to be.
The key struggle was to define each person in one word so that anyone looking at it can remember that person through the idea associated with them.
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