Mapping Hacks

Going through old notes I stumbled on this link to a flash animation of the Middle East, showing the growth and decay of empires over time (link).
“Imperial History of the Middle East: Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of World events. See 5000 years of history in 90 seconds.”

I used to sit in history class staring at the maps showing European borders from pre-WWI, then through the two World Wars. I’d marvel at the strange names. It was not just countries, but whole empires of which I was totally, or nearly totally, ignorant.

And now, through the power of the internets, I can revisit that profound sense of ignorance!

update: 6/3/2008 13:56

Ortelius sent in a link to his blog post which included this map, and a lot of other maps and history of ‘Southwest Asia.’

Interesting stuff.

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