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Offline Sosius

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Cool animated gif showing map of Roman Empire
« on: March 22, 2011, 05:30:03 pm »
I just noticed this cool animated gif on Wikipedia showing the geographic expansion and contraction of the Roman Empire between 510 B.C and 1453 A.D.  Definitely worth a look. 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Roman_Empire_map.gif

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Re: Cool animated gif showing map of Roman Empire
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2011, 05:55:25 pm »
That is pretty cool (and sort of sad seeing somthing as vast and powerful as the Roman Empire reduced succinctly to a 60+-second gif...). Thanks for the link! :)

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Re: Cool animated gif showing map of Roman Empire
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2011, 06:56:44 pm »
was pretty cool and sad at the same time.

One could argue that Charlamagnes' empire should have been depicted... or even the German / Goth's version of the empire....(as short as it was)
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Re: Cool animated gif showing map of Roman Empire
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2011, 07:25:11 pm »
That is cool, thanks for posting it   :)
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Re: Cool animated gif showing map of Roman Empire
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2011, 06:12:51 pm »
You can see the period of uncontrollable expansion before the Varus Disaster, but the images are too far apart to really get a feel for what's happening.
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Re: Cool animated gif showing map of Roman Empire
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2011, 06:40:17 pm »
Fascinating!
Thanks for that!
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Re: Cool animated gif showing map of Roman Empire
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2011, 10:04:28 pm »
I'm glad you all liked it!  800+ years must be a record for the decline and fall of an empire.
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