Map created by reddit user Wally_SquashThe map above shows “The Hippie Trail”, where western hippies travelled throughout the 60s and 70s usually to consume drugs and seek some form of spiritual awakening.

Here’s the original author on creating the map:

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Map created by AdhavocThe map above shows the political situation in Europe in the year 1199AD.

A very different time to today:

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Map created by Hanson, J. W.as part of the The Oxford Roman Economy ProjectThe map above shows where you could find the most important cities in the Roman Empire and their estimated relative size to one another in 117 AD.

Estimating the population of Roman cities is notoriously difficult, so the best we have are estimates.

You can get an extremely detailed explanation of this from Hanson’s An urban geography of the Roman world, 100 B.C. To A.D. 300, which includes data on nearly 1,400 Roman settlements.

Below you can see some estimates of the population of various Roman Cities based on different population densities (note the year used for these estimates is 150 AD):

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Map comes from the Map House WebsiteThe map above is an allied propaganda map from 1939 and shows how they thought the war would be fought.

Here’s the text from the map:

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Map mashup created by reddit user imonebearThe maps above show what the Sahara Desert looks like today compared to what it may have looked like 8,000 years ago. The bottom map is titled “Ancient Lakes of the Sahara” and was created by Carl Churchill.

You can get a better look below:

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Map created by SYThe map above shows Marco Polo’s incredible journey from Venice to China and back again.

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Map from Amazing MapsThe three maps here show the major mountain ranges and plains of the Roman and Byzantine Empires at their respective peaks. They are all the work of Amazing Maps and you can buy prints of each of them from their website here.

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Map found on reddit

The map above gives a very rough population estimated for various parts of the Roman Empire in 165 AD. It should of course be noted that these are best guesses as we don’t have detailed census records from the Romans than we do for modern countries.

Nevertheless, I thought it would be fun to look at estimated the population of the regions in 165 and compare them to the modern populations.

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Map found via the Library of CongressThe map above was published by the United States. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1991.

It shows union (Soviet Socialist) republics with area tints, republic names, and capital cities.

However, the USSR itself would be relegated to the dustbin of history that same year on December 25th (the final map would look like this).

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