Animated Historic Maps of the World
The possibilities of animated maps
November 2016 I published a story about a Dutch book, De rafelranden van Europa (The fringes of Europe). The borders between the countries in the continent changed thousands of times because of wars and other political movements.
De rafelranden van Europa >
The book was illustrated with seven simple maps of Europe in different years in history, like after the disappearence of Napoleon (Congress of Vienna, 1814/15) and after World War I (Treaty of Versailles, 1915). That, however, were poor illustrations in a book where hundreds of changes of borders in nearly every year in history were discussed. At least you needed a historical atlas.
Nowadays there are more opportunities. At the Internet the art of animated maps is under development. Now all the historic changes yearly or in other episodes can be made visible at a video, eventually with some background. I used those maps in ‘De rafelranden van Europa’. It was published (in Dutch language) at the Dutch historical website Historiek.net and at my own website André Horlings Publicaties. (You could use Google Translate to read the story in your own language).
Producers of animated maps
The starting video at this story, about the History of the World, is animated by Ollie Bye from the United Kingdom. Ollie makes historical animations about wars, nations, and much more. His main focus is the colonial era, from the late 15th to the mid-20th Century, At his site you find over 85 different maps.His videos can be selected like History of Nations, Historic Wars and Conceptual History like the spread of religions over the Globe, the Crusades, the exploration of the Arctic, the history of Monarchs and (much) more.
Other producers of animated maps are (among many more, see below) Emperor Tigerstar Animations of History, Suomi History of the World , GalacticPenguin TV and Jake Mapping.
In this survey a selection of animated maps, all around the world, is represented. Sometimes you can start the (YouTube) video from this page; otherwise you find links to the video.
After the Big Bang
The Spread of Religions
Animated map: How religion spread over the World (2.35) Business Insider
The Spread of Christianity, 1000-2016 (4.52) Ollie Bye
First Holy War in History, Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602 – 628 (9.17) DivineSolja
Christianity and Islam, 700 - 985 (1.31) Ollie Bye
The removement of moslims from Spain.
A cute cartoon about the spreading of religion (3.15) rasaviharii
The History of Europe
The entire history of Europe from the first settlements to the civlizations of nowadays
History of Europe, 1 - 2016 (6.51) S&F Productions
History of Europe, 1000 - 2000 (10.58) Edo777
Governments of Europe, 1770 - 2015 (8.48) Chitturi Abhinav
Europe 1150-1453 (6.18) Ollie Bye
Europe from the high Middle Ages to the fall of Constantinopel
Europe 1453-1701 (4.52) Ollie Bye
Europe from the Fall of Constantinople to the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession.
The developement of Empires
- The Great Eastern (Ottoman) crisis, 1875-1878 (5.08) S&F Productions
- The Holy Roman Empire was the WEIRDEST country ever (5.37) EmperorTigerstar
Byzantine Empire (3.23) Roman BV
- Justinian's Restoration of the Empire (5.44) Reply History
Justian I the Great (582-565), the emperor of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman), attacks the Vandal Kingdom in their attempt to restore
the Roman Empire to its former borders.
- Byzantium in the Near East, 590-1460 (3.41) profxyzful
- Fall of Constantinopel 1543 (8.09) Reply History
The House of Habsburg, > 900 - 1919 (3.35) Ollie Bye
History of the Slavs 631- 2016 (8.06) Jake Mapping
The history of Europe's largest ethno-linguistic group which played a fundamental role in European and World history
Rise and Fall of Empires
Rise and Fall of the Dutch Empire, 855 - 2016 (5.25) Ollie Bye
History of the Netherlands in 5 Minutes (5.14) mmvdv
Historical atlas of the Low Countries in motion (1.57) Popperite
Holland's Barriers to The Sea Documentary 44.20) Largest Dams
The History of Nations
The Partitions of The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1764 - 1795 (10.36)
Artus Uroda
History of the Greeks 2540 BCE - 2016 (7.47) Ollie Bye
The History of the British Isles 43 CE - 2016 (7.33) video, Ollie Bye
History of the Germans 843-2015 (15.02) Ollie Bye
History of Germany 1226 - 2014 (7.30) Chitturi Abhinav
The History of Austria and Hungary 1093 - 2014 (11.08) Chitturi Abhinav
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (1.48) S&F Productions
History of Czechoslovakia, 1918 - 1993 (7.48) Peter Ridilla
Rise and fall of the French Empire 843-2016 (6.10) Ollie Bye
History of France 1137 - 2014 (3.55) H n F
The Capetian Dynasty, 987 - 1328 (4.10)
In 987, Hugh Capet ascended the French Throne, beginning the Capetian Dynasty. Over the next several centuries, it would, at various times,
spread to most Europe, making it one of the most influential European dynasties.
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (6.20) Historical map Animator
Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939 (3.56) S&F Productions
Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Empire, 868 - 2015 Ollie Bye
History of the Italians 552-2016 (8.15) Ollie Bye
History of the Continents
History of India 2800 BCE - 2016 (12.05) Ollie Bye
History of South East Asia (9.37) Jake Mapping
History of South East Asia, 2000 BCE - 2015 (13.36) The Dragon Historian
The US - British Creek War, 1812 - 1814 (1.57) EmperorTigerstar
The Creek War (1813-1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War, was a regional war between opposing Creek factions,
European empires, and the United States, taking place largely in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast.
The American Civil War 1861 - 1865 (5.10) EmperorTigerstar
The Most Destroying Wars
Mongol Invasion of Europe, 13th Century (5.37) Reply History
The Great Turkish War, 1683 - 1699
(3.33) Ollie Bye
Turkish War of Independence (1919 - 1922) (6.19) Historical map Animator
The Napoelonic Wars, 1803 - 1815 (6.31) Ollie Bye
The Balkan Front, 1914 - 1918 (2.58) S&F Productions
The Recreation of Poland & War with Soviet Russia, 1920 - 1921 (8.35) Artur Uroda
Second World War, 1939-1945 (7.00) EmperorTigerstar
Battle of Stalingrad (4.53) with Dutch subtitles Reply History Italian Civil War, 1943- 1945 (2.17) S&F Productions
The Final Solution (The Holocaust) 1939 - 1945
Holocaust Encyclopedia with twelve animated maps, like about Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Voyage of the St. Louis. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
The Korean War 1950 - 1953 (2.01) EmperorTigerstar
Animated map of human migration around the globe (2.23) Bi Science
Climate Change: If All the Ice melted (2.44) BI Science
Miscelllaneous Geography
The most complex borders in the World - Part 1 | Part 2 (9.11) WonderWhy
The Worlds strangest borders (6.13) RealLifeLore
The 20 craziest borders in the World (5.35) SC Videos
The most complex borders in the World - Part 1 (11.53) | Part 2 (9.11) WonderWhy
Ten Shortest Lived Countries (8.42) Top Lists
These are the 10 shortest lived countries in all of history
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Ten countries you didn’t know existed (9.29) Alltime10s
Alltime10s brings you 10 places that are - arguably - countries… countries that your Geography teacher never taught you about.
Ten Countries that may soon disappear (9.01) Eskify
No nation state, no matter how strong their economy, no matter how united their population, can last forever. All countries will eventually
disappear. Some will slowly fade away, and some will suddenly collapse. It's likely that several countries will go this way in the next ten years.
Here are some at risk of disappearing.
Peace at ’World’s most dangerous border’ (12.10) Adnan N Samia
No maps, but the ceremonies at the border between Pakistan and India at Wagah,2 9 km Lahore (Pakistan) and 27 km from Amritsar (India).
There is daily flag raising and lowering ceremony at Wagah Border, with fascinating pomp and ceremony that involves lots of soldiers in
massive ceremonies. It has become a tradition for people from both sides to gather and view. Both sides synchronize their parade. The
event is meant to create a feel-good/patriotic fervor amongst the crowd.
Strangest time zones of the World (8.38) WonderWhy
Some of the world's strangest time zones. Including: China, Kiribati, Nepal, Australia and more.
Timeline of National Flags: World (2.05) Kaliningrad Alternate | Europe, 1444-2015 (10.15) Algol | Asia 1 (2.00) EarthCrafter Maps | Africa, Part 1 (2.41) Suomi | North America, Part 2 (4.56) Algol
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