Daftpanzer
canonically ambiguous
Thanks for your comments! 
About using an animated .gif, the thing is I'd prefer to use lovely PNG compression. And there's quite a few maps now, so as one GIF it would probably be several megabytes, which causes problems with my slow connection and already-over-crowded upload folder
Also, I have been writing some brief stuffs to go in-between the maps, as a kind of descriptive timeline thing.
To answer other questions about the big empires, here's all the maps ive done. As usual I probably made too many and wasted too much time on this
At least it was quite fun (and fairly easy once I got the format), and helped me to get my head around everything again.
Distant history based on old legends. Sea levels are slightly higher because I decided there was a 'desert age' ending instead of an ice age.
Pre-Civ3 NES
Start of Civ3 NES
Near end of Civ3 NES
DNES2: Agrinese empire reaches critical mass, Taej Empire is formed
BT#1, Saxonguille formed
Kyzar Khan's empire
Into IT#2, Kyzar Khanate is almost revived, Saruk fights Kenbu and various rebels
Near peak of 2nd DNES2 'IT', Pangari and Orion on the warpath
BT#2, Antalese Empire at height, just after killing Orion. Kaliate is still around.
Oh noes for Antalya, Taej and the Kaliate of Acre
Last century of the BT, Thuleans almost pwn all

About using an animated .gif, the thing is I'd prefer to use lovely PNG compression. And there's quite a few maps now, so as one GIF it would probably be several megabytes, which causes problems with my slow connection and already-over-crowded upload folder

To answer other questions about the big empires, here's all the maps ive done. As usual I probably made too many and wasted too much time on this


Distant history based on old legends. Sea levels are slightly higher because I decided there was a 'desert age' ending instead of an ice age.

Pre-Civ3 NES

Start of Civ3 NES

Near end of Civ3 NES

DNES2: Agrinese empire reaches critical mass, Taej Empire is formed

BT#1, Saxonguille formed

Kyzar Khan's empire

Into IT#2, Kyzar Khanate is almost revived, Saruk fights Kenbu and various rebels

Near peak of 2nd DNES2 'IT', Pangari and Orion on the warpath

BT#2, Antalese Empire at height, just after killing Orion. Kaliate is still around.

Oh noes for Antalya, Taej and the Kaliate of Acre

Last century of the BT, Thuleans almost pwn all