Without written records, the only viable way I know is oral knowledge and artifacts. Cultures that disappeared without leaving records are gone forever, their knowledge is lost.
Wow, that's incredibly detailed. It's interesting how some nations had vast territories, and other regions were densely packed. Interesting too about Comanche, Seminole, etc., not having formed yet in the 16th century.
It's cool how the coasts are so fractured into little groups while the midwest, arctic is big broad chunks.
My best guess is that this is caused by terrain - it's easier to defend a cove, peninsula, island, than it is open grassland. If mountains could support more people, maybe there would be a similar fracturing across mountains.
Not really sure how to explain the messy state of the American SW though. So maybe the phenomenon is caused by trade or something.
I wonder how they know much of this, beyond the areas documented by the Spanish.
I was wondering the same. It must have been quite the effort to recreate from historical documents and accounts.
Without written language, how accurate do you think hundreds of years of history would be after going through an apocalyptic population collapse?
Many American cultures were lost entirely. Who would be representing them in this graphic?
Without written records, the only viable way I know is oral knowledge and artifacts. Cultures that disappeared without leaving records are gone forever, their knowledge is lost.
Right, but we know of some from archeological finds.
The big issue is that disease wiped out 90%+ of those populations, so later visitors really couldn't even learn what had been there.
small pox, influenza and covid-19
Wow, that's incredibly detailed. It's interesting how some nations had vast territories, and other regions were densely packed. Interesting too about Comanche, Seminole, etc., not having formed yet in the 16th century.
It's cool how the coasts are so fractured into little groups while the midwest, arctic is big broad chunks.
My best guess is that this is caused by terrain - it's easier to defend a cove, peninsula, island, than it is open grassland. If mountains could support more people, maybe there would be a similar fracturing across mountains.
Not really sure how to explain the messy state of the American SW though. So maybe the phenomenon is caused by trade or something.
I also wondered if it had more to do with the density of the European settlements as well, since most of our surviving records are probably from them.
In the Europa Universalis franchise you can play as any of these, and all of Europe of course and more
One of my favorite games. So crazy detailed.
Have you ever finished a game??
I've played Crusaders Kings 3 a few times, I'd like to get back into it and play the LOTR or Game of Thrones mods, they look amazing.
This map is fantastic!!
Puts into perspective again that the modern United States is relatively young
Tribes and territories not nations?
Nations are a European invention?
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