Atlas of The World History (animated)<p><a href="http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/</a><p>also<p><a href="http://www.timemaps.com/history" rel="nofollow">http://www.timemaps.com/history</a>
I especially found the map of europe Year 1 vs 2000 interesting. Hopefully, it won't take another 2k years for the EU to grow back together as a community. Of course, there are the intermittent 2k years that have divided us, but if you compare the progress over the last 50 to the previous roughly 2k I think we've done quit well.
If someone was to download these images and make a simple site that links them all with transition fades to show the change over time, would it be an infringement of the Euratlas copyright?
Great. I love maps, and I love history. I feel like I don't have enough time to read enough history. Looking at maps gives a good summary of the rise and demise of various empires and states.
I prefer the maps in Wikimedia Commons - there are some amateur maps, which may be even better than some lifted from expired-copyright atlases.<p>There are quite a few different historical maps of the same year/region - it is very important to have them side by side, because history is very subjective and historical maps are only a subjective and deficient in data representations of historical presence.<p>Maps (by century):
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_by_century_shown" rel="nofollow">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_by_century_s...</a>
Frontiers of Europe from -500 to 2013.<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id543207391" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/app/id543207391</a>
Remarkable that the French & English won WWI when you look at the year 1900 map. Between Germany, Austria, Ottomans, and Italians, it seems that ~75% of the at war landmass was on the German side.