The Ultimate Map Thread

Wouldn't that be true for almost all maps depicting a time before modern border demarcation?
No, because things that are obviously contra to the currently accepted chronology of the Bulgarian war (see e.g. Holmes 2005) are included in that map. Apparently Lessman read a book that mistook the Spercheios campaign for conquest instead of an extended raid; he has Bulgaria extending further south than is reasonable, and fails to include the Byzantine reconquest of Triaditza/Serdike/Sofia as well.

Perhaps more relevantly for you, he also doesn't really do anything with the then-ongoing Buyid/Buwayhid civil war (despite it being fought on relatively similar terms as the Bulgarian war with the Byzantines), confusingly depicts the 'Abbasid caliphate as "independent" despite the Buyids/Buwayhids having exercised military suzerainty over that area some years before, and seems to messed up the Caucasus in general.
 
Dachs, your mastery of history, and a wide variety of history i might add, is very impressive.

Its a shame you don't like playing Fantasy NESes; i would have loved to have you as a player.
 
What's with that tiny area in Wales being labeled "unknown"? The exact political boundaries of many areas on that map are "unknown" and he doesn't seem to single those out.
 
No one would happen to have a map similar to this:
Spoiler :
link: http://j.imagehost.org/view/0619/chat2_map_8

of the entire world, except with provinces sized according to population density in around 650 BC? (IE Arabia would have larger provinces than egypt, due to population differences, etc) I doubt it, but I thought I'd ask before attempting it myself. Please and thank you.

Cheers. :D
 
That doesn't exist. The map you are looking at is a version of the Victoria I map I posted on here a while back.
 
I am aware of what it is. I was wondering if anyone had augmented it thusly. I figured not.
 
And I could make unhelpful criticisms of it. :)
 
It's 650 BC. Figures are out of the question, estimates are ass-pulls. The archaeological record at that point in time sucks for most of the world (almost as much as the written record does), and even for areas where it doesn't suck (e.g. the Levant, Egypt, possibly Italy and Greece) estimates are still almost pointless.
 
Edit: Found one!
 
This was for Matt0088's old NES and is no longer needed. Posting here just in case its useful to anyone (non-Earth world).

Spoiler :
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Do you mind if I take this for my eventual, potential NES in here? I might add a couple of extras in the middle of the gigantic ocean, but otherwise it would be great for my NES (probable MilarNES III).
 
@Milarqui you have my blessing :)

Do you mind if I take this for my eventual, potential NES in here? I might add a couple of extras in the middle of the gigantic ocean, but otherwise it would be great for my NES (probable MilarNES III).
 
Do you mind if I take this for my eventual, potential NES in here? I might add a couple of extras in the middle of the gigantic ocean, but otherwise it would be great for my NES (probable MilarNES III).

EDIT: Daft beat me to it! :p
 
Quite alright :) I'm glad to hear there's progress. Can I see a snippet of it?
 
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