Historical world map · 500 BC
World map in 500 BC
A snapshot of the ancient world during the age of major Mediterranean and Asian powers. This sourced reconstruction contains 189 mapped geometries. 74 carry usable source labels; 112 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 189
- Named labels
- 74
- Geometry points
- 24,573
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 500 BC
Named in the source
Cultures, peoples, and polities mapped in 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
- 74
- Unlabeled shapes
- 112
- Achaemenid Empire
- Adena Culture
- Ainu
- Amazon hunter-gatherers
- Andean hunter-gatherers
- Arctic marine mammal hunters
- Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
- Austronesians
- Avanti
- Bell-shaped burials culture
- Blemmyes
- Boii
- Brushed Pottery culture
- Caribbean hunter-gatherers
- Carthaginian Empire
- Chavin
- Chinchoros
- Chorrera
- Curonians
- Desert hunter-gatherers
- Eastern Masurian culture
- Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
- El Paraiso
- Ethiopian highland farmers
- Etrurians
- Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
- Gandhāra
- Glades Culture
- Greek city-states
- Guanches
- Hindu kingdoms
- Illyrians
- Iron Age megalith cultures
- Kasi
- Khoiasan
- Kosala
- Kuru
- Late Jomon culture
- Magadha
- Maize farmers
- Malla
- Manioc farmers
- Meroe
- Milograd culture
- North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
- Olmec
- Paleo-Inuit
- Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
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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
- 189
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 112
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.