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January 28th, 2008

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The Growth of the Roman Empire

From an experiment by a contributor to Wikipedia:

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Christy Quirk
January 28, 2008
1:43 pm
There was an installation like this at the Istanbul Biennial in November, but it started at about 5000 BCE and tracked the rise of all major empires and colonial expansion up through the present time. Took about 30 minutes to sit through, but absolutely fascinating and fun to figure out what was what.
Dan tdaxp
January 28, 2008
1:44 pm
Very sad that both Byzantium and the Rus were smashed and deformed by invaders from the east. Very lucky for us that the Romano-German world was not so twisted.
Curzon
January 28, 2008
5:40 pm
Christy, I would have loved to see something like that. No chance its viewable anywhere online I suppose?
Alfred Russel Wallace
January 28, 2008
9:40 pm
What are those little bits left at the end?
Curzon
January 29, 2008
2:20 am
"The Empire of Trebizond,":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Trebizond and "The Despotate of Morea!":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotate_of_Morea

(Wow, that second one took a lot of searching to discover...)
dj
January 29, 2008
6:03 am
Some thing are not accurate. There was a huge jump between 40 BC and 70 AD. Huge change in that period. Egypt was absorbed earlier on and Trajan expanded Luther east.
Christy Quirk
January 29, 2008
2:36 pm
I've been trying to find it but it's hard to google "that empire projection installation piece I saw at the biennial."

Sorry!
Lexington Green
January 29, 2008
4:33 pm
I always thought it was the Despotate of the Morea, with an article "the".

Perhaps the coolest name for any political unit ever.

Though the Empire of Trebizond is pretty cool, too.

It is sad to see these colorful fragments get hammered one by one by the Ottomans.

Runciman's book on the Fall of Constantinople is a stirring work.
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February 3, 2008
12:19 am
[...] Hat tip: Curzon at Coming Anarchy. [...]
Opinio Juris
February 9, 2008
3:39 pm
Mapping the Evolution of States and Empires...


The bloggers at Coming Anarchy have put together an informative series of posts about the shifting borders of states and empires. There’s a time-lapse animation of ...
Palestine - Shifting Borders & Shifting Sands | aggregator.in
February 17, 2008
7:18 am
[...] if I go back a bit further, you can see where the challenge comes from. Look here at how the Roman Empire grew and shrunk over hundreds of [...]