Map of the Day: The Population Density of the World
Not only is the world urbanizing, it seems to be shifting to the very biggest cities
Map of the Day: Every Month of the Hundred Years’ War
The Hundred Years’ War, which actually lasted over 116 years, was a series of conflicts fought between the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, and the French House of Valois
Map of the Day: The Rise and Fall of the Inca Empire, Every Year
Over the ensuing hundred years, the Inca Empire would subjugate most of the neighboring civilizations and become the largest pre-Colombian Empire in the Americas
Map of the Day: Europe from France’s Perspective in 1870
The French view of Europe at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870
Map of the Day: The Conquests of Alexander the Great, Every Month
Alexander the Great’s undefeated conquest of the Persian Empire and the creation of one of the largest empire known to the world at that time
Map of the Day: Europe from Germany’s Perspective One Year into WWI
The ‘Sea of Collateral Damage’
Map of the Day: Do More People Live in Urban or Rural Areas?
Whether the majority of a country’s population have lived in rural or urban areas since 1500 AD
Map of the Day: The Ancient History of the Middle East, Every Year
The rise and fall of the earliest civilizations in human history
Map of the Day: When the British Empire was Larger than the Chinese Empire
“The disruption of China would seriously affect the rest of the world|but the collapse of the British Empire would be followed by results incalculably greater, and it is no exaggeration to say that it would convulse the whole fabric of human society”
Map of the Day: The Great Northern War
Much like Napoleon and Hitler’s failed invasions of Russia in the following centuries, Swedish forces were hampered by the coldest winter in 500 years while in Russia