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stui magpie Gemini

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 6:01 pm
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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/if-you-love-history-and-you-love-maps-youre-going-to-flip-over-the-histomap-2016-8

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Care to see 4000 years of history at a glance?

That was the irresistible promise from Slate, which dug up “The Histomap” from the David Rumsey Map Collection recently and brought it to our attention.

It’s not strictly a map, but more of an early infographic from a time when there were no slideshows or click-and-zoom options.

“The Histomap” was created by John B. Sparks and first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. And we wanted to show it you mainly because it’s an incredible example of how much information you can cram on one page and at the same, show a much bigger picture.


I thought this was really cool. From the link you can go to the site that houses the "map" and look at the history of different groups/countries/cultures over the last 400 years, see how their power expanded, reduced and in several cases fully faded away or was supplanted by someone else. I've always liked history, just not the crap that was taught at school.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:10 pm
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Nice map, but it's interesting how the author lists nothing of note ever worth mentioning from Australia, the Pacific, Indonesia or Africa (besides ancient Egypt). Stuff all too about Central and South America. It's way too Euro-Centric, but I do like the idea and layout.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:39 pm
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Interesting, thanks. I'm sure I remember coming across that map in old educational supplies shops many years ago. I've always been fascinated by this kind of stuff. One of my favourite books as a child was The Times Atlas of European History, which shows how European borders and nation states have changed over 3000 odd years. Couldn't recommend it highly enough if you're into this stuff:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1193068.The_Times_Atlas_of_European_History

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:43 pm
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stui magpie Gemini

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:59 pm
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sixpoints wrote:
Nice map, but it's interesting how the author lists nothing of note ever worth mentioning from Australia, the Pacific, Indonesia or Africa (besides ancient Egypt). Stuff all too about Central and South America. It's way too Euro-Centric, but I do like the idea and layout.


Yeah, I get where you're coming from but the premise as I get it is about mapping the relative power exerted by different societies. The missing areas you mention, practically had none, certainly not in the 1930's when i was made.

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