Is this an accurate map of what the world looked like in 1CE?
No because the ones in white were either not recorded or their memory and records were wiped out by invading forces.
The grey/"advanced culture" category doesn't make any sense. A lot of the light grey was at similar levels of cultural development to the named tribal peoples, they just didn't border literate societies so we don't have names for them.I have no idea what the "emergent civilization" is trying to say, it lumps together very different groups. The Xiongnu were horse nomads with quite a similar lifestyle to the "advanced culture" of the Scythians, while the Olmec were an advanced agrarian civilization.Even in the "advanced civilizations" (we usually use "state societies" these days) category, Thrace was a Roman client at this point.There may be more issues, that's just what I see off the top of my head.
>>18468101There was nowhere near that much purple dye in China.
>>18468101If I were in charge of mapping videos until very modern history I would avoid using anything that implies solid firm borders unless stated firmly in a treaty. Borders were vague and poorly enforced as well as many edge cases like client kings, vassals...etc
>>18468101Wish we could go back. Christianity ruined the world literally.
>>18468101>>18468101I can't comment on the Andes, but pretty most of Mesoamerica aside from parts of West Mexico should be colored in as "Advanced Civilizations" by this point, the region had cities for well over a thousand years by this point and formal bureaucratic state governments had been a thing for at least 5 centuries, arguably much longer.Also, not labeling anything other then Teotihuacan, the Olmec (who didn't even exist anymore by 1CE/AD), and the Maya is lazy. I can get that we don't have detailed records of exact state boundaries for this period (hell even as of Spanish contact things can get murky if you try to be specific enough), but there's no excuse to say exclude the Zapotec, etc
>>18468194>>18468101For comparsion, here is AztlanHistorian's 1CE/AD map, which has it's own issues and guesswork involved, but is certainly better then the video OP's pic is from>>18468116Whoops, meant to quote you here and in >>18468194
>>18468196if civilization in this region in ancient then why are there thick jungles with very little land deforested for agriculture?
>>18468319Main problem for agriculture in jungle isn't forest, but quality of soil.
>>184683191. Some of it was cleared and deforested for agriculture, it's just regrown now2. Many of them practiced agroforestry which allowed the jungle to be used for agriculture without totally clearing it3. Only the lowlands, coasts, parts of Chiapas and the yucatan peninsula was jungle, the highlands in Central Mexico, Oaxaca, West Mexico etc are valley and mountain ranges with temperate to semi arid climates, like pic related
