The NEW Our TimeLine Maps Thread!

Thande · #1 January 12th, 2006, 08:53 PM

Decided to put this in this section as I tend to think of it as 'the one with the Map threads'...

I've made a series of maps showing our own world throughout history - so far I've only gone back as far as 1800 - for the purposes being templates that everyone can use. Say, if you have a TL with a POD in 1914 (such as no WW1 or a different one), you can use my 1914 map as a starting point for any maps you make of the eventual result of that POD.

I've made great use of the D.K. Atlas of World History, which helpfully provides world maps of 1800, 1850, 1900 and so on.

Obviously there are some areas open to dispute, e.g. what constitutes a sphere of influence. I welcome any comments about any mistakes I may have made.

To begin with, here is the colour scheme that I have used all the way through, this being about the maximum number of colours I think you can use in GIF format before they start to look too similar. Which countries I have applied colours to is somewhat arbitrary and based on the fact that these maps mostly covers the age of European empires. If I go back any further I'd probably need distinct colours for Persia and...

Anyway, to begin with, here is the key (or legend as the Americans would have it), showing the colour scheme:

Thande · #2 January 12th, 2006, 08:57 PM

Next, a map for 1800 (they will follow in chronological order).

Thande · #3 January 12th, 2006, 09:01 PM

Here's a map for 1850 (I could do with doing one for 1861 for those working from American Civil War PODs, come to think of it)...

Thande · #4 January 12th, 2006, 09:03 PM

This one depicts 1901:

Thande · #5 January 12th, 2006, 09:04 PM

This is 1914:

Thande · #6 January 12th, 2006, 09:04 PM

Millions of dead people later, this is 1925:

JHPier · #7 January 12th, 2006, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Thande

This one depicts 1901:

I don't think Korea was already (de jure) Japanese in this year.

Shouldn't the Boer Republics get British stippling?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thande

Here's a map for 1850 (I could do with doing one for 1861 for those working from American Civil War PODs, come to think of it)....

Ottoman control over Tunisia, Egypt, Serbia and Romania by this time was purely nominal though. In 1800 the extent of actual Ottoman control was even more limited.

Something similar goes for the Dutch East Indies. In the eastern half of the archipelago Batavia controlled some outposts but authority over the bulk of these islands was purely nominal until ca.1900. And the the extent of effective control over Borneo and Sumatra was only a little better.

Didn't Toussaint L'Ouverture (in the name of France) rule the present-day Dominican Republic as well in 1800?

JHPier · #8 January 13th, 2006, 08:12 PM

More nitpicks: In 1850 half the Gold Coast shown British was still Dutch (until 1873).
France's Senegal colony was at that same date big enough to show on the map.

Rhodesia became a dominion, I think, at some point before WWII.

Darkest · #9 April 29th, 2006, 04:41 AM

I hate having to go to page two all the time to find this. Such awesome maps...

Knight Templar · #10 November 17th, 2006, 02:43 PM

could someone help me with this map i can't make the provinces right

SunilTanna · #11 February 3rd, 2007, 12:10 AM

Comments? Thoughts? Let me know what you think - if anything

Qazaq2007 · #12 March 23rd, 2007, 04:28 AM

Thande,
I wholeheartly commend your cartographic skills, as evidenced by your maps, which I think are excellent, but I do have a quibble about the 1942 world map (OTL map that is). You have depicted Tannu Tuva (Urjanchai Republic as being part of the USSR. The USSR didn't annex Tannu Tuva until 1944, and should be depicted as a Soviet vassal on par w/ Mongolia. My apologies for the critique, it is just the cartographer and historian in me. Keep up the great work.

Cordially yours, Q