Of course, there is also the Website-That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named, a mine for opinionated, blatantly shoddy bordered, anachronic carthographies. It's kind of sad because, obviously, the author did searched a lot to find cultural and polities not usually depicted (and to be fair, I do use these maps to search for these as well), but...it's simply too poorly executed.
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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You get an empire, YOU get an empire, YOU get an empire! Except you, Japan. You're just a shogunate.
Also what kind of moron says 'Manchu Empire'?
D. Trump?
Has this been posted yet? Can someone tell me who thought this was a good idea?
Barry Bull
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Well, the light orange part can roughly be translated as "area of unstable Chinese Sphere of Influence" and the purple part is the Tibetan Empire, so it is not that bad. . and Whether the Tang internal administration borders are period appropriate or not is beyond my knowledge. Interestingly, the small map at the lower left corner does not show any occupation of India and Tibetan Empire.
@LSCatilina
Up to Aral Sea, the question is less about Chinese influence being stable or not, but actually existing.
At the height of T'Ang control over Central Asia, safe the Tarim basin and Ferghana, you didn't have much regions of entities that can be considered part of the Chinese Sphere, unstable or not, especially regions we know having been rather under Sassanian influence, and more or less important Arabo-Islamic control.
It's a Tibetan Empire that shrinked after being washed? Because even assuming this is an anachronical map displaying all regions that T'Ang controlled, influenced, wished they had, told everyone that their Canadian girlfriend was going to carry with them when she'll come just you see...
At the very last, the southern Tarim basin and southern highlands should be depicted the same way as the eastern highlands of the Tibetan Empire were, a relatively temporary conquest.
Behold this pudgy nightmare.
What's next, Bandiaterra and/or Papers, Please?why
OMG TANZANIA IS PRUSSIA!!
also, TEENY TINY CRIMEA
Depiction of the California gold rush features a slightly wanked America. Found in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Really the best you can do?
Depiction of the California gold rush features a slightly wanked America. Found in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Really the best you can do?
Not many rivers here, apparently.
Crimea actually looks normal for its size. The Falklands, on the other hand...
