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I Love People :: all-encompassingly :: blog added these pithy words on Feb 03 08 at 12:19 am[...] Hat tip: Curzon at Coming Anarchy. [...]
Opinio Juris added these pithy words on Feb 09 08 at 3:39 pmMapping 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 added these pithy words on Feb 17 08 at 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 [...]
Christy Quirk added these pithy words on 28 Jan 08 at 1:43 pmThere 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 added these pithy words on 28 Jan 08 at 1:44 pmVery 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 added these pithy words on 28 Jan 08 at 5:40 pmChristy, I would have loved to see something like that. No chance its viewable anywhere online I suppose?
Alfred Russel Wallace added these pithy words on 28 Jan 08 at 9:40 pmWhat are those little bits left at the end?
Curzon added these pithy words on 29 Jan 08 at 2:20 amThe Empire of Trebizond, and The Despotate of Morea!
(Wow, that second one took a lot of searching to discover…)
dj added these pithy words on 29 Jan 08 at 6:03 amSome 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 added these pithy words on 29 Jan 08 at 2:36 pmI’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 added these pithy words on 29 Jan 08 at 4:33 pmI 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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