Post interesting historical maps. Either modern maps of historical times or contemporary ones.
Preferably ones that are not just geopolitical borders.
I'll start.
Historical Map Thread
Michael Barnes
Tyler Clark
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Julian Nelson
That didn't paste properly.
Cooper Brown
The 35 day barrier coincides heavily with the maximal extent of the empire, as well as many of its temporary holdings. Not perfectly, but heavily.
Jaxson Barnes
That's interesting, do you know how fast messages took to travel?
Jordan Jenkins
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Josiah Edwards
That's pretty much what the map is showing. I don't know if it's just coincidence or says something about how much communications affect the size of empires, but it really is interesting how well they line up. The 28 day barrier also mostly covers the most stable holdings of Rome.
Kayden Bell
IIRC Rome had some sort of message carrying system. There were stations where a messenger could exchange horses (or indeed messenger). I don't know when this was introduced though.
William Gray
The earliest example we have (I'm sure all empires have had to have something like this) of this kind of system, it's where we get the concept of the relay race.
Nathan Moore
God damn I love maps like this. I remember in college my historical geography professor showed us a few dozens (mostly Europe through the centuries, but a few of China and the Andes too), best time I had in a classroom ever. Coupled with Braudel for textbook made for a toppest tier class to take. Too bad he was old as fuck, refused to use computers as lecture aids (used fucking diapositives to show us the maps, in the year of our lord 2012), and retired before I could take his upper level classes about territorial analysis.
Brandon Morris
en.m.wikipedia.org
Ah yes found it
Zachary Russell
How did they manage to pull this off? I thought Austro-Hungary was a backwater.
Bentley Peterson
Bahntransport = rail transport
Jacob Scott
have you considered the memes you "learnt' may not be true?
Ayden Nguyen
That's not an answer.
Brody Perez
I'd like to see a similar map for constantinople
Liam Ross
You want him to take time and effort to disprove your own misconceptions?
Fuck off
Ryan Collins
>Austro-Hungary was a backwater
Backwater is a relative term. They certainly were as industrialized and economically developed as France and Germany, but they were neither poor nor backwards. Even a country kept into industrial worthlessness by lack of mineral resources until the mid-20th century like Italy had a well developed railway network by the time WW1 came around.
Samuel Clark
I'm not dumping 11 pics from mobile, but I'll post you a link so you can enjoy them:citymetric.com
Chase Nguyen
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Luis Flores
You thought wrong.
William Martin
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Levi Robinson
>perfect worlds don't exi-
Also that red gives a very odd effect on my phone.
Christopher Butler
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Connor Lewis
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Adrian Hall
>Berlin at where Warsaw is
William Garcia
Looking at it now were the allies retarded? Why didn't thy try to create a greater numerical superiority for the invasion?
Andrew Ortiz
The Greeks gave an estimate as to the numbers needed for the invasion but Churchill completely ignored them and sent like 15% as much.
Ian Watson
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Brody Brooks
Full size
xpda.com
What are these sorts of maps called? Infographics gets used a lot but that sounds like a modern meme.
Andrew Myers
London Geographical Society
"The Peoples' Atlas" (1920)
Pic: World supply of key commodities
Liam Smith
London Geographical Society
"The Peoples' Atlas" (1920)
Pic: The World's Trade (c. 1920)
Carter Anderson
London Geographical Society
"The Peoples' Atlas" (1920)
Pic: Main air routes and the distance to London in hours
William Campbell
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Owen Hernandez
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Connor Gutierrez
London Geographical Society
"The Peoples' Atlas" (1920)
Pic: Money, Languages and Emigration Routes
(c. 1920)
David Peterson
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John Mitchell
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Juan Nelson
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Justin Bell
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Aaron Brooks
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Hudson Anderson
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Liam Diaz
Related, literacy in Austria-Hungary. Look at how bad Galicia is.
Kayden Bailey
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William Ramirez
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Asher Miller
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Hudson Clark
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Jackson Ross
Japanese Map of the World in 1914, with main railroad connections.
Elijah Collins
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Eli Rivera
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Jacob Murphy
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Dylan Cruz
and people say the Earth is spherical, HA
Eli Collins
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Logan Sullivan
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Isaac Nguyen
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Ryder Lee
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Sebastian Walker
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Isaiah Cook
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Kevin Stewart
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Jaxson Campbell
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Isaac Cox
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William Gutierrez
Austro Hungary was heavily regional. Transylvania, Carpathia and Budovina, sure. Lower Austria, Transdanubia and Bohemia? No, they enjoyed quite high economic growth.
Blake Lopez
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Kevin Long
Does anyone have a map of how long it took for each European empire to build railways?
Jacob Adams
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Evan Bailey
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Nicholas Walker
It was compared to other nations. See UK rail network simultaneously.
Parker Russell
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William Wood
This is awesome.
Easton Murphy
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Matthew Howard
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Charles Evans
>compared to other nations
It was better than 99% of the planet. UK was an outlier and had the most extensive network in the world.
Robert Gomez
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Connor Adams
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Bentley Taylor
Most Western nations had a more extensive rail network in 1914 than they do nowadays.
Jordan Bell
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Brody Smith
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Caleb Peterson
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Colton Ross
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Christian Morgan
America is even worse, they were the pioneers of rail travel and nowadays their railways are shit because of six decades of automobilization and Amtrak is underfunded garbage.
Alexander Cox
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Ryan Lopez
>America is even worse, they were the pioneers of rail travel and nowadays their railways are shit because of six decades of automobilization and Amtrak is underfunded garbage.
While the U.S. doesn't do much passenger rail nowadays, we still ship the most freight by rail in the world.
Benjamin Smith
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Henry Foster
Depends. In the west it's so bad that in cities like Phoenix even most goods are shipped through air or trucks.
Ryder Smith
Since we are posting railroad networks, Argentine railroads by 1946
Robert Hill
And its growth, which was explosive between 1890 and 1930
William Cook
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Justin Nguyen
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Lincoln Phillips
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Luke Watson
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Gavin Butler
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Nolan Roberts
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Jackson Morales
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Caleb Rogers
That's depressing
Justin Gonzalez
What does this map refer to?
Angel Edwards
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Jaxson Robinson
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Juan Howard
very good post
t. ligurian
Gabriel Young
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Kayden Diaz
label your shit!