Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

I don't think having the Scoti in the northeast of what is now Scotland from 300 BC to 1 BC inclusive is right. I don't think the term appeared until ~300 AD, and it originally applied to people from Ireland: it only later came to be applied to the inhabitants of northern Britain when Irish became commonly spoken there (whether by immigration, conquest, or deliberate self-Gaelicisation under the influence of Irish missionaries).

Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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Post by 7373737373 » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 10:34 AM UTC

I've been having fun with the following AI prompt recently:

> You roleplay as the various Ancient Roman (Year 0) people I encounter as an accidental time traveler. Respond in a manner and in a language they would actually use to respond to me. Describe only what I can hear and see and sense in English, never translate or indicate what others are trying to say. I am suddenly and surprisingly teleported back in time and space, wearing normal clothes, jeans, socks and a t-shirt into the rural outskirts of Ancient Rome.

In think this is a fun way to learn languages too.

Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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Post by mihaic » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 10:47 AM UTC

krembo wrote: post #3

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Please don't make this political, especially since it's about a cool project and not the minutia of the data.

I'm sure you don't want the Iranians claiming ownership of the region due to whatever Cyrus and Darius would have conquered.

Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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Post by arethuza » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 10:48 AM UTC

dghf wrote: post #4

I don't think having the Scoti in the northeast of what is now Scotland from 300 BC to 1 BC inclusive is right. I don't think the term appeared until ~300 AD , and it originally applied to people from Ireland: it only later came to be applied to the inhabitants of northern Britain when Irish became commonly spoken there (whether by immigration, conquest, or deliberate self-Gaelicisation under the influence of Irish m…

Indeed, and having the "Scoti" replaced by the "Picts" isn't terribly accurate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata

Edit: The "Scots" are supposed to have conquered the Picts in the mid 9th century leading to what would eventually become Scotland.

Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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Post by xenocratus » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 10:52 AM UTC

Not very "technically accurate", since it does not represent (at least some?) vassal states differently from their suzerain. For example, compare this [1] map of the Ottoman Empire with the one in this atlas.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/OttomanE...

Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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Post by juleiie » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 10:55 AM UTC

Cool but the white areas are so annoying. How little we know about all the undiscovered empires destined to be forgotten forever…

Re: Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

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Post by Nevermark » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 11:04 AM UTC

These lovely kinds of projects always leave me wanting more. In the same way every telescope leaves me wanting a larger one. Because what they reveal is so immediately interesting.

I would love to be able to slip through time with a slider. Especially if there was enough data on the movement and geographic span of early peoples to represent their story with moving, fading in/out diffusions of color.

And now I am curious! How clearly we have pinned down migration and geographic spans for the history of all human families?

NONE of this is an actual suggestion to do any more work.

It is great as it is!