Interactive Historical Atlas of the World

[Alexius08]

Seeing the large patch on the map known as the Mongol Empire is awesome. I'd like to see some hovertext on the next editions, however.

 

[alcibaides]

Seeing the large patch on the map known as the Mongol Empire is awesome. I'd like to see some hovertext on the next editions, however.

Hover text might be quite cool for the cities, for the boundaries it would probably be too intensive as eventually there will be boundaries everywhere so it would have to be constantly running javascript code to bring up pop-up boxes everytime the mouse is moved. I will look into it.

The latest update to this project is that I uncovered a bug that was stopping some users from being able to draw and edit boundaries. The bug appeared to be restricted to certain computers and the Internet Explorer browser, it appeared to be mainly happening with 32-bit operating systems with Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The bug has now been fixed, so if you had any trouble drawing or editing boundaries in the past, most likely the issues you were experiencing have been resolved. So come on back to Chronoatlas.com, your contributions are always welcome.

You will also see that the map is starting to fill up for Europe, I made and imported boundaries for France, Britain, and much of Italy from the present all the way back to the beginning of time. Well back to the Dark Ages, but the Roman Empire was already in there, so pretty much the beginning now.

 

[alcibaides]

Here is the latest update on this project: I have modified the nations so that now when you click on a nation it shows a flag and a wikipedia link for that nation.

Most of the nations do not actually have flags yet but I have provided a new interface for modifying nations which allows users to change the name, link, and flag for any nation, either for the whole nation's history, or for a particular time period.

For example this video tutorial shows how you would modify the name, flag, and link for "France" to be that of the "Kingdom of France" before 1791:



Link to video.

 

[Absolution]

This thing has a great potential!
In the ancient times there are some civilizations which don't appear on the map. Egypt, Gojoseon, , Van Lang, Elam, somtimes Babylonia, and India. And why did you put the beaker culture?
There a also many greek city-states missing..
I also recommand that to add the mesopotamian city states in the 2000-1600 BC, like Larsa, Mari, Eshnunna, etc, beside the babylonian or the sumerian civilization.
I'll try to add all of this, thank you for this great project!

 

[Agent327]

India isn´t missing: the first civilization appearing is the Harappan. What is still missing is lots of cities: in ancient India, China, and Carthage misses its colonies to the west on the Northafrican coast. As for the founding date of this Phoenician colony: based on ancient sources 814-12 BC seems to be the closest one can get. (The earliest archaeological finds date from after 750 BC, making a date as early as 870 BC - as used on the map - highly improbable.)

 

[alcibaides]

This thing has a great potential!
In the ancient times there are some civilizations which don't appear on the map. Egypt, Gojoseon, , Van Lang, Elam, somtimes Babylonia, and India. And why did you put the beaker culture?
There a also many greek city-states missing..
I also recommand that to add the mesopotamian city states in the 2000-1600 BC, like Larsa, Mari, Eshnunna, etc, beside the babylonian or the sumerian civilization.
I'll try to add all of this, thank you for this great project!

Thanks for the feedback Absolution. I did not put the beaker culture, one of the contributors did. At this stage, to try to encourage as much contribution as possible I am approving the great majority of contributions unless I know them to be absolutely wrong. Things can always be deleted later on.

Are you by any chance the recent contributor called 'talatl"? If so I see that you have already got the hang of it and have started contributing some of the things that you noticed were missing (i.e. Elam, Mari. etc.)