The History of the British Isles: Every Year
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Hadrian's Wall was the dividing line. Everything south was called Britannia and everything north Caledonia.
Thanks for these canada-man. The Roman one would be even more initriguing blended with maps of the spread of Islam in the East and the permutations of the Crusades and the Holy Roman Empire and evolution of nation-states in Europe.
Are you familiar with the tumblr, Maps on the internet? I'll see if I can find and post 'Roman roads drawn as subway maps', which makes it clear how their Empire spread as it did.
Are you familiar with the tumblr, Maps on the internet? I'll see if I can find and post 'Roman roads drawn as subway maps', which makes it clear how their Empire spread as it did.
The Romans get the credit for road constructing, the perfected it but they didn't invent road building. That honour goes to the Persians.
What makes the Roman Road map interesting is how much their roads defined the shape of today's 'western world' and its development. Presenting them as a subway map-graphic makes that really obvious, because it suppresses the 'frogs around the puddle' view of the Mediterranean world we're used to.
Thanks for the 'Iran' map; the title's too modest, It's the history of much more and of much more significance. Like what went on in the Americas before Columbus, there's a helluva lot of real history we 'children of Greece and Rome' usually ignore. A mashup with the Roman map to show what was happening in a wider world would be a great thing.
Indeed, so does the guy who collects all those maps. That's what his blog's about: Maps on the Internet.canada-man said:
Thanks again. The Africa map is a very graphic illustration of how we First World Europeans have maintained our willful ignorance of that continent and its peoples until very recent times. It nicely points out that what we called the Dark Continent was really a matter of white blindness.
