Interactive World History Atlas
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By most definitions of history that is a true statement.
Wonderful and rich civilizations may have filled those blanks areas, but if there were no written accounts that survive to the modern day (or at the very least oral traditions that were eventually written down), they are by definition "pre-historic". The study of those peoples is left to the realm of archaeology and anthropology, not history. We know even less about those pre-historic civilizations that built using materials that do not stand the test of time (wood, thatch, mud, etc).
One cannot seriously claim that there was no History in Britain until the Romans arrived (or that nothing was / is known about it), which is what this map suggests. The ancient Greek Pytheas [0] visited Britain in approx 330 BC.
There were plenty of written histories outside Europe at 1AD. E.g. the Mayan civilisation [0]. Their counting system has been traced back to 1000BC.
> The study of those peoples is left to the realm of archaeology and anthropology, not history
There is still no excuse for pretty much the whole of America being blank until about the 15th Century.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#Writing_and_...
They don't show Crimea as Ukrainian controlled, at least.
I like how they have delimiting lines for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but not coloring. Same for Kosovo.
Nothing of significance has ever happened in Bosnia.
Apparently, in 1984 Turkey has deoccupied North Cyprus.
Taiwan is China, nothing to see here.
Makes me think this map is ill-suited to display late XX century conflicts onwards.
China and Taiwan are operated with separate governments and are effectively separate countries, but politically it’s quite a mess. Few countries recognize Taiwan as a separate country from China officially, even if that’s what they believe off the record.