The Expansion of Russia
How has the world’s largest country become the largest country in the world? Ivan the Great and Vasili the Adequate
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Historical Maps
Historical maps showing territorial changes of countries and historical events of the past.
The British Isles mapped out by genetic ancestry
Historical roots in specific areas of the United Kingdom, heading to the finest-scale map of genetic modification yet designed.
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A political map of the world (200 AD)
In 200 CE, great religions spread along the trade roads of the Eastern Hemisphere. Meantime, one of the most populated cities in the entire world now thrives in the Western Hemisphere.
Read MoreWhat Africa might look like if it had never been colonized
The history of Africa starts with the appearance of archaic humans at least 200,000 years ago in East Africa. It continues uninterrupted into today as a patchwork of diverse and developing nation-states. The oldest known states in Africa are the Kingdom of Kush, Ancient Egypt, the Sahel, and the Maghreb.
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Countries of the world that Britain has not invaded or occupied
The British Empire was the most extensive empire by area. The area of the empire at its territorial peak was 35.5 million square kilometers (13.7 million square miles). British Empire has invaded about 90% of the countries around the earth.
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A Map of Every Object in our Solar System
Solar System appeared 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant interstellar molecular cloud. The vast bulk of the Solare system’s mass is in the Sun, with most of the remaining mass contained in Jupiter. This planet and Saturn are gas giants, mainly formed of hydrogen and helium; Uranus and Neptune are ice giants. The four smaller innermost planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are terrestrial, being principally formed of rock and metal.
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