Visualizing history the easy way

[Mattigus]

I was looking around wikipedia when I found this picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_1000_BCE.png

In it, you can see the basic breakdown of the world at around 1000 BC. I was wondering if there was a way to find a whole series of pictures like this, or even an animation showing how humanity progressed in prehistory, then how empires and nations rose and fell. Does anybody know if there's a way to find more of these?

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Yeah, that would be pretty cool. Map is awesome.

 

[Majestic XII]

I had a flash movie that showed how humans moved in the early stages, like how they started from africa and moved out. I'll see if I can find it again.

 

[Pulse]

The discussion page under that image had the following in it;

This map is terribly inaccurate

Um, this map is wrong. Archaeological evidence shows West Africa (and also North Africa!) was smelting Iron by 1000 BC. If you want you can change the date to 3000 BC, otherwise you're just plain wrong

So I'd be careful what you use as legitimate research.

 

[Cheomesh]

I'm a history geek and sort of like the ancient studies a bit more than other things. Cool map. Sort of neat to see who was still in the lithic age while others where in the bronze, etc.

 

[Asus]

cool map .

 

[Rapstah]

West African cereal farmers?

 

[Cheomesh]

What about them?

 

[delusional]

West African cereal farmers?

Maybe they were farming lucky charms.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Cimmerians?!?

 

[Polaris]

Tibetans - Transhumant pastorialists. WOW

 

[Sulkdodds]

I noticed that.

Perhaps they would upload their brains to...cabbages?

I'm trying to work out what a 'poverty point culture' is. It sounds like a political talking point.

 

[The Monkey]

Who the hell lived on Greenland 3000 years ago? What's most attractive, getting eaten by a polar bear or the temperature which never rises above freezing point? Seriously, why didn't they just go to a warmer place?

 

[Polaris]

Greenland before 3000 years was really green land...

Data obtained from ice cores indicate that between AD 800 and 1300 the regions around the fjords of the southern part of the island experienced a relatively mild climate similar to today. Trees and herbaceous plants grew in the south of the island and the prevailing climate initially permitted farming of domestic livestock species as farmed in Norway.

 

[half lunatic]

West African cereal farmers?

What about them?

They're ggrreat!