Historical world map · 1,500 BC
World map in 1,500 BC
An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 163 mapped geometries. 68 carry usable source labels; 94 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 163
- Named labels
- 68
- Geometry points
- 23,485
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1,500 BC
Named in the source
Cultures, peoples, and polities mapped in 1,500 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
- 68
- Unlabeled shapes
- 94
- 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
- Chinchoros
- Chorrera
- Cimerians
- Desert hunter-gatherers
- Dravidians
- Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
- Egypt
- El Paraiso
- Elam
- Ethiopian highland farmers
- Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
- 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
- Phrygians
- Plain bison hunters
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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
- 94
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.