Maps in time

[Bacchus]

Looking around on the internet I notice it would take some time to do this.
First of all...are the sources reliable?
Second; huge time lags
Third; not of every faction is the history known/important enough/recorded ect

A rough setup can be made from every century.

So, this brings me to the question:
When to power-break on faction and which cities to take and give to other factions at what time?
I want to keep them in place as long as possible (Force Diplomacy)

Any suggestions?

[oudysseos]

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html

You may find these maps interesting and fun.

[alatar]

It's OK, but I'd pick a few bones with the democracy map.

The First modern democracy is a title that could belong to a number of countries.

[General Appo]

It´s pretty hard to know exactly when an area changed hands, especially in the east with the little-recorded wars between the Pahlava, Baktrians, Saka-Rauka, Yuhezi, Seleukids and just about everyone else. The Celtic and German ones would be hard to, it´s very difficult to know when exactly an area or tribe came under the submission of say the Aedui.

[Pezlu]

Not mentioning that allied tribes/nations are represented in EB with level 4 government of the same faction... so, even for a well-documented faction it could be difficult to know where the area under the control of one of his "minor allies" (level 4 governments) would end.

[The General]

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html

You may find these maps interesting and fun.

Simplistic, yet entertaining. They contain more information than the average layperson has, but an educated person would like to point out a thing or two (like why is [Achaemenid] Persia missing its easternmost holdings, Sogdiane etc?).

[Ayce]

Those maps are pretty simplistic, they give you a general idea, but aren't that accurate.

Eg: The religion maps, for something that is so easy to get correct info on, they kinda screwed around with the area coverage:

1. Expansion is too political. The Balkans weren't „muslimised”.

2. Part of Romania is shown as lacking Christianity even in a quite late period, the area accepted the religion early on (2nd-3rd century AD) because of the monotheistic tendencies of Zalmoxianism.

3. Expansion of Christianity into Poland and Russia is shown too late.

4. Modern Islam-Hindu border isn't too correct

5. The religions shown do not dominate 100% of the globe as the map suggests.

6. Too few important religions shown. (various types of polytheism, animism, ancestor worship, Atenism, Zoroastrianism, Shinto, philosophic religions, Zalmoxianism, Mithra worship, Isis worship, Jainism, Baha'i, splits in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism)

7. Lack of a late atheification.

[Bacchus]

I now am planning of making my own maps. I pretty much have an idea now.

It seems nobody here has made some, yet.

When finished, I'll post them on this forum.


Thanks for all the input so far!