Ancestors

Written by j2dumfounded :toad: on 2024-12-21 at 22:13

Over on the hellscape, I used a hashtag, #SaturdayMaps.

I enjoy looking at maps. You can learn things from them that cannot be learned from Google Earth or Google maps or Apple Maps.

Actual physically printed maps are different.

And that is why I have a small collection of atlases.

This is a small thread about one of my minor hobbies.

Happy solstice, people.

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Written by j2dumfounded :toad: on 2024-12-21 at 22:46

My current collection of atlases includes

• tattered, paperback Goodes World Atlas c 1978

• a leather bound Britannia c 1994

• Australian Atlas c 1981 an Australian school textbook

• The Atlas of Past Times c 2006 in high quality paperback

I still regret letting go of the greatly oversized National Geographic, which was a gift. It was impossible to store, though.

With the exception of the Britannica, these measure approximately nine wide by 12 tall. That’s inches, 🇺🇸 imperial system.

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Written by j2dumfounded :toad: on 2024-12-22 at 09:29

For some reason, I’ve had technical errors loading a photo of the Atlas of past times. Suffice to say its cover feature the Mongolian horde of Genghis Khan, spreading southward and Westward

Ukrainians call Mongols the Golden Horde.

I think of the Soviet Union as the Golden horde of the 20th century. And that’s ultimately what all of these atlases are about.

Here’s a link to the atlas

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4208571-the-atlas-of-past-times

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Written by j2dumfounded :toad: on 2024-12-22 at 09:32

The thing about this Atlas is that you go from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 turn a few pages to Europe in the dark ages and you see Genghis Khan on the upper right along with all of Europe. In two pages you cover Charles great, the Vikings, and the life of the monasteries.Did I mention how beautifully illustrated maps are and the graphics? This is great data visualization. Why the fuck has four stars I don’t know it is amazing.

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Written by j2dumfounded :toad: on 2024-12-22 at 09:36

You’ve got the Byzantine Empire featuring mostly Greece and Turkey from 324 Cita 1453 and the Mediterranean along with their crusades, Russia converts and the Byzantine legacy in four pages next up is the rise of Islam from 6:32 to 1453CE including the end of the Caliphate. Then we’re off to medieval Europe from 1050 A.D. to 1500 in the Renaissance, the age of the Crusades and Joan of Ark. Next up…

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Toot

Written by j2dumfounded :toad: on 2024-12-22 at 09:52

The Tang dynasty was one of the most successful ever rule China, extending the region in to central Asia. Their successors, the Sung, fell to the Mongols. 618 to 1287. This covers arise of Buddhism in Tibet.

If you look at the map, they were spread out too far. All the way to modern day Kazakhstan through a narrow corridor, the Gansu. Not very tenable.

“however because of the great distance involved the central Asian empire was difficult to defend.”

All of these empires were too large.

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Descendants