Historical world map · 1,000 BC

World map in 1,000 BC

An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 163 mapped geometries. 69 carry usable source labels; 93 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
163
Named labels
69
Geometry points
23,476
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 1,000 BC

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Named in the source

Cultures, peoples, and polities mapped in 1,000 BC

Usable source labels mix archaeological cultures, peoples, broad cultural regions, and early polities. They are reproduced as dataset labels, not converted into modern-country categories.

Named labels
69
Unlabeled shapes
93
  • Ainu
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Arabian pastoral nomads
  • Arameans
  • Arctic marine mammal hunters
  • Assyria
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Austro-Asiatic rice farmers
  • Austronesians
  • Babylonia
  • Berbers
  • Burmese
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Celtiberians
  • Chavin
  • Chinchoros
  • Chorrera
  • Cimerians
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Dravidians
  • Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
  • Egypt
  • El Paraiso
  • Elam
  • Ethiopian highland farmers
  • Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
  • Gandhara grave culture
  • Greek city-states
  • Guanches
  • Hittites
  • Illyrians
  • Iranian pastoralists
  • Karasuk culture
  • Khoiasan
  • Kingdom of David and Solomon
  • Kush
  • Late Jomon culture
  • Maize farmers
  • Manioc farmers
  • N. European Bronze Age cultures
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Olmec
  • Paleo-Koreans
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pampas cultures
  • Papuan neolithic farmers
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
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  • Phrygians
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Prot-Altaic pastoralists
  • Saami
  • Saba
  • Saharan pastoral nomads
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Shellfish gatherers
  • Sinic
  • state societies and Aramaean kingdoms
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Thrace
  • Tibetans
  • Urartu
  • Urnfield cultures
  • Vedic Aryans
  • West African cereal farmers
  • Wu
  • Zhoa

Precision in the source

Not every border deserves the same confidence

Precision is inherited from the dataset when available. It describes how the line was encoded, not the overall certainty of every historical claim inside the polygon.

Approximate border
163
Unlabeled source geometries
93

Source, license, and download

Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010

Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.