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"The Histomap" by John B. Sparks, published 1931 (www.visualcapitalist.com)

submitted 1 year ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

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It is certainly not perfect, but still an impressive piece of work.

I found it here.

And here is a version embedded in a web page so it scales to your browser window's width.

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[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a historian but i feel like this map exaggerates the strength of the roman empire and underestimates the strength of the Mongolian/Chinese/Indian empires. Id love to know more though if you guys have more info

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's a fair criticism. It seems very Euro-centric to me.

[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't see anything about some of the large and wealthy African empires like Mali or Benin.