An active map about the world since 1000 AD.

[loreta]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14d_1348362692

Is it accurate? I don't understand very well. Maybe too fast. But I see the the Ottoman Empire is the Empire that was there all the time till the WW1.

 

[griffin]

That's really cool, Loreta! I've viewed it only once, but I'm hoping there's a way to slow down the speed of the animation interactively. The first few hundred years probably aren't very interesting to most of us because those empires came and went long ago. However, the last couple of centuries are interesting.

Thank you for finding and posting this!

 

[Redrock12]

Good find Loreta.

 

[loreta]

You welcome. But it is true that it is a little too fast. Need to be seen again and again.

 

[seek10]

Interesting how borders change over time. thank you loreta for sharing.

 

[Palinurus]

I thought I had seen something similar before, so I did a search and my memory didn't deceive me: 10 centuries in 5 minutes Maybe both topics should be merged?

It states over there that a slow version of the same exists which takes 11 minutes to watch, but after checking the link it showed to be dead now. But the parent website is still up and running.

While searching, I found several other map related features.

This one maps the succession of Imperia dominating the Middle East. The site has a few other maps on different issues like the spread of religions or of 'democracy'.

Another site lists maps concerning the history of the XXth Century. Very elaborate.

The same guy lists maps for the whole of world history to be found anywhere on the web. Virtually all epochs covered!

Hope this helps a bit. :)

 

[loreta]

Thank you Palinurus! This is interesting. I saw the Empires in the Middle East. Wow. Some it is the first time I hear about them. And how huge, huge was the Persian Empire. And now, nothing. And one can see how one of the finality of WWI was to take control of this region.

And how small is Israel....

 

[Gawan]

It seems this video is making it's round at the moment at least I saw it myself some days back on FB. I thought too it is interesting, a bit too fast and missed the years a bit. But here it could eventually a bit compared:

_http://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/index.html

 

[Palinurus]

And how small is Israel....

Loreta, you may want to keep in mind the remark of Galahad here:

Interesting, yes. However, they still fall for the old "Bible as history" trap and portray the existence of "The Kingdom of Israel" back when we know there was no such thing.

 

[loreta]

And how small is Israel....

Loreta, you may want to keep in mind the remark of Galahad here:

Interesting, yes. However, they still fall for the old "Bible as history" trap and portray the existence of "The Kingdom of Israel" back when we know there was no such thing.

Thanks. I was surprise to see "the Kingdom of Israel." Never hear about it.

My sentence refers to the smallest of Israel, how little space it occupies and how brutal and how everything turns around it. And how come Israel, the Israel of now, this minuscule state is in this map about Empires? ;)