The Sands of Time - Pre-NES/Worldbuilding

Welcome to my first nation-based NES!
Or, well, the pre-thread for it.

Basically, the way this is going to work is that we're going to take a fresh-start world at the dawn of urbanization, and, in this thread, we'll build it's history through RP and a series of regional maps. These maps will slowly come together, until we reach a final world map. At some point, we'll start a new thread, and turn this into a game - either around OTL Age of Discovery or OTL Age of Imperialism. I haven't decided yet, and you can all help do that.

In any event, even though this will start around urbanization, you can also plop down nomadic or hunter-gatherer cultures, etc. - the point is to build a world history, not play the game yet. For similar reasons, I would like to see this a bit more focused on plausibility then "let's be first to everything," we'll have time for that later, when the game itself starts.

So, at the moment, what can you do?
Well, I'm making this Pre-NES very easy. You can generally go with a lot of things, but you need at least:
- A people - I don't mind if you do a culture, a city, a small city-state, etc.
- Where they are on the map
- A depiction of their culture - as detailed as possible, ranging from language through religion.
- If you're choosing to do a nation-esque thing, where your cultural kin live.
- How you live and govern yourselves.
- Basically, anything you can think of to tell me.

I'm not restricting the number of cultures/nations you can put down, or what region(s) you want to put them down in, but keep in mind that someone else can hijack your culture for other nations or derivatives, and, of course, that you can't hold a monopoly on the map - let other people have some creative input.

So, yeah, uh... maps.
It would be great if you can help me hunt those down. I'll post them as we go in the next couple of posts, but feel free to post revisions and such.

Don't post yet.

Reserved for maps







I know some of these stink/don't make sense with scale. Feel free to propose others.

Reserved just in case that wasn't enough.

You may now post.

Why isn't there a South America section on the maps spot?

EDIT: Or Africa for that matter.

Because I haven't found a decent South America yet. Same goes for most of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific/etc.

It'd be really awesome if anybody who knows of one could post it here.

Curiosity: Are Mesopotamia and Indochina not worth a map?

EDIT: Found most of Mesopotamia in the Europe map.

No, see my last post again. I'm trying to find maps for these regions which are both (A) editable and (B) don't have political borders on them.

Definitely interested.

South America plus Caribean and Hawaii. I'll be starting in the West Indies.

Works, and you can start more than one culture If you want (since its the pre-NES phase right now)

I know, that's just where I'll start. But first I'll find a map for Africa.

This looks nice. I'll create a culture around Lake Beyşehir, and perhaps one around the Irrawaddy Delta.

And here is Africa and the Middle East:

Very interested .

I will most likely create a Nomadic Tribe in Mongolia.

I am wishing to taste NES. Hence I desire to perhapes make a culture on the isle of Hainan.

I'm going to make a nation in Italy. It will be a fortress port that expanded and now has a really rich city in Milanese area.

I don't know if I just didn't make this clear, but the whole point of this thread is to create the cultures, so you can start at any time.