Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #25 – 2014-04-20, 13:34:03 Quote from: jax on 2014-04-20, 13:27:45That map is a little misleading as they likely had a series of colonies, rather than a continuous landmass. This map from the China thread is better.Quote from: jax on 2014-03-17, 13:12:25Old-style colonies are not around that much anymore.By the way, the current-day Maltese seem to be of significant Phoenician stock (by DNA, a load of caveats apply).
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #26 – 2014-04-20, 13:40:52 What are the colours?Yellow seems to be about Poenicians, ? While the third (grey) seems to me reading "Google":lol:
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #27 – 2014-04-20, 13:45:41 Yes. But this picture is also used on English Wikipedia.
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #28 – 2014-04-20, 13:59:42 I'm a fool! The grey must be "Germans"!:)
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #29 – 2014-04-20, 14:06:42 Red is Greek colonies (which this map really is about), yellow is Phoenician colonies and cities and gray is other cities. I don't think it is fully complete on the Phoenicians, and definitely not on others, but the map is pleasing (here in full size).One of the gray cities, Rome, is soon going to have a significant role, or so I am told.
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #30 – 2014-04-20, 14:19:26 Quote from: jax on 2014-04-20, 14:06:42One of the gray cities, Rome, is soon going to have a significant role, or so I am told.How come?:hehe:
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #31 – 2014-04-20, 14:21:57 Quote from: jax on 2014-04-20, 14:06:42http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/AntikeGriechen1.jpgWhere the Phoenicians came from?Were they Africans or... Atlantisians?:hehe: Last Edit: 2014-04-20, 14:36:08 by Josh
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #32 – 2014-04-20, 16:01:21 Quote from: Josh on 2014-04-20, 14:21:57Where the Phoenicians came from?Were they Africans or... Atlantisians?:hehe: From cities in what today is Lebanon. Europa was a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete, according to Greek myth. The Greek alphabet comes from the Phoenician alphabet (the name Bible comes from the Phoenician city Byblos).
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #34 – 2014-04-20, 18:01:36 Quote from: Josh on 2014-04-20, 16:56:00Were they sorta prehistoric Jews? The Jews were living further south. Also note that since we know a lot about the Phoenician alphabet, that would imply they're not a part of prehistory — at least by the time the map is about. 1 Likes
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #35 – 2014-04-20, 18:34:29 If they were history, then what about their predecessors in the region? I know there was Egypt. But as well as I learned, they didn't travel far. And they're sorta on the edge of our territory - at least culturally -
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #36 – 2014-04-20, 18:38:56 And let's not forget about the other "end" -- India. Long ago - before those major ethnicity - the land was occupied by a different people -- who left both cultural heritage and elements of the further cultural basics. Right?Who's an expert? I read Wiki. Not recently...
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #37 – 2014-04-20, 18:40:40 At the time, Britain was inhabited primarily by squirrels.
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #38 – 2014-04-20, 18:47:55 Quote from: Josh on 2014-04-20, 18:40:40At the time, Britain was inhabited primarily by squirrels. Some squirrels.
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #39 – 2014-04-20, 19:06:23 And going even further back in time, twice as far back as the above map of the Mediterranean:
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #40 – 2014-04-20, 19:24:51 Another time sequence, a little bit more recent.[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_AZ3j2LbY[/video]
Re: The 'Old World''s History Reply #41 – 2014-04-20, 20:16:57 The odd thing about how things look in that animation is how some of the periods without any activity probably represent the worst battles of the war.