Great!I made this Roman expansion map using the QBAM. I like the format and I've been working to correct errors and improve the color scheme, but I'm not totally satisfied yet. Macedonia especially needs more nuance.
Edit: There are actually several rather careless areas that will require more reading on my part to correct. Besides Macedonia, Spain and Cisalpine Gaul are kind of a mess. I need to confirm what it shows in Africa. Consider this a WIP.
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Good map. Most noticable: Arabian coast 25 BC??I made this Roman expansion map using the QBAM. I like the format and I've been working to correct errors and improve the color scheme, but I'm not totally satisfied yet. Macedonia especially needs more nuance.
Edit: There are actually several rather careless areas that will require more reading on my part to correct. Besides Macedonia, Spain and Cisalpine Gaul are kind of a mess. I need to confirm what it shows in Africa. Consider this a WIP.
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Good map. Most noticable: Arabian coast 25 BC??
That's the campaign of Aelius Gallus. It was a total failure, so I wasn't going to include it, but he did capture some towns on the way and so it falls under a broad definition of "temporary conquest." When I made the key bigger and found that it extended the map exactly that far to the south, I decided that I may as well include that expedition.
I'm continuing to tweak the map. It's difficult sometimes to say when exactly an area was Romanized. In almost every territory that Rome conquered, it spent time as a client state before being completely annexed. Clientage meant very different levels of independence depending on the time and place, so it's a judgment call when to call a place "Roman". In general the map shows annexation, but that seems misleading in some cases.
Here's a somewhat fine-tuned map. I'm still not completely happy using annexation as the main criterion, but I don't know of any better way to show it that's anything but "when False Dmitri feels like considering it Roman." The one exception is Crimea, which was not annexed until the 6th century. The date indicates the arrival of a permanent Roman garrison. This may be a better criterion to use, but it's difficult to find that information in all cases.
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I saw that map but it didn't seem to be borne out by any other sources. Can anyone speak to its accuracy?Some materials for you.
oh shit it's that time of year again
August 2018
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Previous Versions
January 2018
April 2018
Changes from April 2018
AMERICA
- Dutch Caribbean now more accurate
EUROPE
- Added Rockall
- French territories now correct colour
AFRICA
- Updated Libyan civil war
- Added Sudanese states
- Somaliland now shown as independent
ASIA-PACIFIC
- Taiwanese claims now shown
- Changed colour of Myanmar
- Added outline around Bougainville
- Updated war in Iraq and Syria
- Syrian claim on Hatay now shown
ANTARCTICA
- Norwegian and Argentinian claims now have correct colours
Thanks for the help! <3 (it turns out that somalia does not in fact claim ogaden)Excellent work, but Argentina lacks the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and Mar Chiquita Lake:
Also, does Somalia officially claims the Ogaden?
Yeah in Spanish in common parlance we usually use "Holanda" rather than "Países Bajos". Much like "Inglaterra" instead of "Reino Unido".
Yeah in Spanish in common parlance we usually use "Holanda" rather than "Países Bajos". Much like "Inglaterra" instead of "Reino Unido".
Yep, and here in South Germany I have so far not really heard anyone saying Niderland (and what's with swallowing the e?), and indeed, Holland is here also much more common in informal speech.
So an analysis of this data suggest that if as a Roman emperor you want a better chance for a natural death, you better leave Rome and don't go East. Makes sense.