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Historical Maps of the World for every year in recorded history

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The essential concept of these historical maps is to show detail in time instead of detail of information. We show the entire world at the beginning of every year. Every map is consistent with every other map in terms of the information displayed, colors used, and detail shown. We believe that our maps are unique in two important respects. First we have a complete historical map of the world for each year. We have not been able to find anything like this in any historical atlases or anywhere on the internet. Secondly we show all countries instead of just the major ones or generic groups of countries.

We have chosen the Country as the basic unit of display. The term "Country" is somewhat vague but useful for this purpose. As used in these maps, a Country is a politically organized geographical area that is not subordinate to another Country. Each Country is shown in a distinctive color that is consistent between maps. Since we have sacrificed detail of information in favor of detail in time, we do not show any information within Countries. We also do not show extremely small countries or independent cities unless they were particularly important. There is simply not enough room on a world map for this level of detail.

All maps compromise between shape and area, and historical maps introduce the additional variable of time. Most attempt to show what happened in a given area over a period of time. In historical atlases, these time periods can be quite long. There are also historical maps, or entire atlases, which concentrate on a specific area. Even here, however, details from different times are still usually shown on the same map. The other type of historical map shows the state of an area at a given point in time, usually a significant year. However given the limitations of space in atlases, there are many years, sometimes centuries, between maps.