Mikroraptor's Historical Map thread

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Hello, all! I have been making historical maps as an educational resource, and I think that they could also be useful for making AH projects. These maps are made using multiple sources, and as such I attempt to choose the most accurate borders, but it is still guesswork.

I will post a labeled and blank version of most of these maps. If you wish to use these for your own projects, feel free, but please credit me.

Thanks!
-Mikroraptor
 
The Ancient Near East
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    mikroraptor

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    My first historical map, the city states of Sumeria
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    The Akkadian Empire
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    akadian empire under rimush.png

    akadian empire under naram-sin.png

    akadian empire at shar-kalli-shari (its collapse).png
     
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    • Ancient Near East part 2
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    • mikroraptor

    mikroraptor

    babylonians.png

    700s B.C.E
    Uman-Manda is an Assyrian word for the Scythians
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    c. 645 BCE
    Neo-Assyrian Empire
    assyrian empire and elam 1.png

    639 BCE
    The Neo-Assyrian Empire reaches its greatest extent.
    The next maps show a progression over the course of about 30 years, leading to the fall of Neo-Assyria, and the rise of the Median and Neo-Babylonian empires.
    assyrian empire and elam 2.png
    assyrian empire and elam 3.png

    assyrian empire and elam 4.png

    babylonian empire and median empire.png

    Neo-Babylonian and Median empires
     
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    • CHKeeley

    CHKeeley

    Great maps! Only nitpick I have is in my particular area of expertise: the Celts.

    The Germanic cultures seem to have a Rhine border with the Celtic cultures already in the 600s BCE but this isn’t quite accurate.

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    As you can see here, the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures that are described as Celtic culture today is largely based around modern Bavaria and dominates the southern Rhine the Danube areas. Also, your maps have an entirely “Celtic” Iberia which was very much not the case (particularly in the 600s BCE.) Celtic migration into Iberia, Britain, and the Balkans up to modern Ukraine did not start until considerable later (more into the 300s and 200s BCE) and Iberia was never entirely Celtic.

    Basically, you’re using later generalizations propagated by Caesar on the boundaries between the Celtic and Germanic peoples as well as making them significantly more widespread than they were at the time.
     
    mikroraptor

    mikroraptor

    Viralworld said:
    Great maps! Only nitpick I have is in my particular area of expertise: the Celts.

    The Germanic cultures seem to have a Rhine border with the Celtic cultures already in the 600s BCE but this isn’t quite accurate.

    View attachment 448047

    As you can see here, the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures that are described as Celtic culture today is largely based around modern Bavaria and dominates the southern Rhine the Danube areas. Also, your maps have an entirely “Celtic” Iberia which was very much not the case (particularly in the 600s BCE.) Celtic migration into Iberia, Britain, and the Balkans up to modern Ukraine did not start until considerable later (more into the 300s and 200s BCE) and Iberia was never entirely Celtic.

    Basically, you’re using later generalizations propagated by Caesar on the boundaries between the Celtic and Germanic peoples as well as making them significantly more widespread than they were at the time.
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    You are absolutely correct. This was one of the first maps I made, and i should have revised it
     
    Tribes of the Celtae
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    mikroraptor

    celtae tribes1.png

    To make up for myinncuracies on the previous map, I have made a map ot the Celtic tribes, though I might have the Celtiberians a little off. Also included are Ligurians, Veneti, and Vasconians
     
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    • The Very Beginning: The spread of Hominid Species in Africa, Part 1
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    • mikroraptor

    mikroraptor

    Hominins1l.png

    C. 7 MA
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    C. 6.2 MA
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    C. 5.7 MA
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    C. 5.3 MA
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    C. 5.1 MA
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    C. 4.8 MA
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    C. 4.6 MA
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    C. 4.5 MA
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    C. 4.4 MA
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    C. 4.1 MA

    NOTE: All borders are approximated based on fossil evidence and local geography. Dates are approximate also.
     
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    • mikroraptor

    mikroraptor

    I am going to start over, going from the spread of humans out of Africa to the modern day, and I will probably redo most of the maps seen above
     
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