Crimea is shown Russian here. I'm questioning the data source.
Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
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Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the world maps in both PRC and ROC show one China, not two That is irrelevant. The map is not the territory. They are two countries in reality; that is, they operate as two separate sovereign countries in every practical way, regardless of what legal fictions are maintained for political reasons. This atlas is presumably supposed to be about reality, not about legal fictions. (BTW: North Korea and South Korea offic…
> They are two countries in reality It only looks like this from the West, where the support for independent Taiwan is much higher than in Taiwan itself (not to speak of PRC where it's non-existent.) People in Taiwan don't perceive China as a different country (the way that French perceive Germany for example) but rather as a different (unfortunate) regime over the same nation. > This atlas is presumably supposed to…
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Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> most of Taiwan's population consider Taiwan and (mainland) China to be one entity I very much doubt this is true — post a source, if you’ve got one
My experience is a personal one -- a couple of jobs ago I was travelling extensively to Taiwan (on a multi-year ROC visa) and had lots of conversations with people. I can offer a link to ROC constitution (above): > Because the ROC constitution is, at least nominally, the constitution of all China, the amendments avoided any specific reference to the Taiwan area ... Or this passage: > The position of the PRC and the K…
Since you went there with a visa, I'm sure you noticed that the authority that issued that visa has nothing to do with Beijing.
And since you also know that the taiwanese want to "maintain status quo", it's probably clear to you that they want to keep their full control, and not be under the rule of the CCP.
Which makes it really interesting, why you keep argueing for "one china".
Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
My experience is a personal one -- a couple of jobs ago I was travelling extensively to Taiwan (on a multi-year ROC visa) and had lots of conversations with people. I can offer a link to ROC constitution (above): > Because the ROC constitution is, at least nominally, the constitution of all China, the amendments avoided any specific reference to the Taiwan area ... Or this passage: > The position of the PRC and the K…
Believing that China and Taiwan should be reunified is not the same as believing that they are, currently, one entity, which is what was originally claimed.
Note that in taiwan people want the status quo, not reunification. And nobody likes to do things when threatened by force, which is what the CCP is doing
Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#125I always wanted something like a "History of human progress" which when zoomed out shows me something like this: -2000000 Stone tools -1000000 Using fire -6000 Metal tools -6000 Agriculture -4000 Writing 1550 Printing 1888 Telephones 1888 Cars 1903 Planes 1941 Penicillin 1941 First computer 1982 Homecomputers 1983 Mobile phones 1990 The internet 2001 Wikipedia 2004 Facebook 2007 IPhone 2022 ChatGPT And then I can zoo…
seems very 20th and 21st century biased lol.
Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was social media before Facebook, though.
Yes, but I think it makes a nice view to point to some first popular instance of something. Otherwise everything becomes fuzzy. For example, there was AI in the 60s. But ChatGPT was the first that achieved mass adoption.
There were printers before Gutenberg, but printing Chinese ideograms was a totally different challenge. Yet the list mention printing, not Gutenberg.
Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#127Cool project, but seems to be abandoned. At one point I was a subscriber to their premium version, but then started getting spam to the (unique) email address I used for the subscription. I emailed them to warn that their account database might be compromised but never heard back from them (this was back in '22). Also, back then, their map tiles loading had a very high failure rate when loading, so I wrote a custom c…
What is it supposed to do? When I click on a country, I get a pop up with a flag and a link to Wikipedia?
Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, there’s no need to be pedantic about that particular point, because nobody put fossil fuels on the list of human progress.
I've seen estimates that world population would be billions fewer without fossil fuels. They have big costs, but also big benefits.
I've seen estimates that the curvature of the world is zero. I'm not obliged to believe every estimate I read.
Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They are two countries in reality It only looks like this from the West, where the support for independent Taiwan is much higher than in Taiwan itself (not to speak of PRC where it's non-existent.) People in Taiwan don't perceive China as a different country (the way that French perceive Germany for example) but rather as a different (unfortunate) regime over the same nation. > This atlas is presumably supposed to…
> It only looks like this from the West, where the support for independent Taiwan is much higher than in Taiwan itself (not to speak of PRC where it's non-existent.) People in Taiwan don't perceive China as a different country (the way that French perceive Germany for example) but rather as a different (unfortunate) regime over the same nation. I think this misses the point. It doesn't matter if 0% or 50% or 100% of…
Then this atlas is doing a really really good job, as the label "Taiwan" only appears after 1949, Crimea after 2014, Cyprus is divided after 1974, Georgia after 2008, and (state of) Palestine never appears at all. However sibling comments seem to be offended by Palestine/Crimea/Tibet situation.
Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#130Total plug but this year I scraped 400,000 wikipedia pages with Gemini to create landnotes.org, an atlas where you can ask "what happened in Japan in 1923": https://landnotes.org/?location=xnd284b0-6&date=1923&strictD... https://github.com/Zulko/landnotes My plan has been to overlay historical map borders on top of it, like the Geacron one from this post, but they all seem to be protected by copyright - and understan…
Cool project. Seems like your link to "wiki-dump-extractor" is broken.