The modern concept of ethnicities didn't exist in the same form back then per se. Even as late as the 1900s, in this part of the world especially, things were fluid enough that literal siblings could and did have different answers on censuses, and the same person might answer differently year to...
That map is still somewhat simplified as well, there were even smaller and more fiddly princely states around.
A few did in fact try to become independent, but sadly that doesn't work so well when you have a fairly militant newly minted power like Pakistan or India surrounding your territory...
One major correction: The circle below may represent voicelessness in IPA, but in traditional PIE transcription- which is a system that predates that usage- it actually means syllabic, ie the n should be pronounced like the 'en' of 'kitten' is for many Americans. I don't know for sure, but I...
Question for some of the folks making the newer generation maps for the early 1900s and late 1800s:
What's your criteria for colouring something as claimed terra nullis?
Additionally: If we were to stringently apply that same criteria to maps from later decades such as the 40s, 50s, or even...
There are at least arcgis files from sources like Nasa available to work with.
As an aside, part of the reason I think this would be useful is that normal population maps are fallible and misleading. Large parts of cities which are devoted to industry or commerce are marked as uninhabited when...
Has anyone ever tried to make a Q-BAM of the Human Footprint Index? I feel that this would also serve as a semi useful resource for maps like the Russian demographic one, since the regions which are hardly populated show up well in that dataset.
The issue with such things is that control wasn't as clear cut back then as it is with modern nation states. It would be very possible for a given town to pay taxes or tribute to, be protected or extorted by, and otherwise essentially be 'part of' multiple entities, both in a legal sense and a...
That feels good for finished timeline maps, but for maps designed to be easily editable it causes issues. A transition of striped or dotted areas would be more sensible for that, though simply using a border colour which is defined as being undefined is the current standard and works fine.
There were a surprisingly large number of very tiny states in places like India, Arabia, China, and Indonesia, many of which were actually fully independent in the 20th century for brief moments due to one circumstance or another. In the right circumstances, keeping that going may have been...
I suppose this counts as a map request.
Does anyone know of any good resources for the 2000s~ BC? Maps of known cultures, maps of recorded Sumerian place names, maps of archeological sites, basically anything- especially for Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, and India. It's so very hard to find...
Has anyone done a patch series for British India yet? I noticed that a lot of the most updated 1800s maps still have major inaccuracies, such as the complete absence of Nagpur State and Nagpur Province before 1853 and '61 respectively, as well as little if any attention payed to the changing...
Particularly in the case of Korea, the resistance is not only organized, but malleable ideologically. That is to say, it would have been able to appeal to just about any benefactor they wanted, whether that was the Soviets, Americans, the KMT, or even Japan itself in the guise of a restored...
I've already completed Transnistria. I'm not sure which colours are best here, but 'west ukraine' is also defined as Transnistria on the chart of the colour scheme, so I used it as best I could. As for detail, it's more or less 'all of it'.