Map of the Middle East in 700 BC

For 700 BC, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 28 names within the Middle East. The map also draws 1 outlines here that the source gives no name.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Arabian pastoral nomads (a description by the source, not a name)2,520,000
Saharan pastoral nomads (a description by the source, not a name)1,610,000
Iranian pastoralists (a description by the source, not a name)1,310,000
Neo-Assyrian Empire920,000
Kingdom of Kush565,000
Elam435,000
state societies and Aramaean kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name)352,000
West African cereal farmers (a description by the source, not a name)295,000
Arameans288,000
Phrygia188,000
Hittites147,000
Urartu108,000
Saba99,900
Egypt97,600
Hadhramaut86,200
Cimerians79,100
Kush71,400
Phrygians45,500
Thrace39,700
Kingdom of David and Solomon35,900
Greek City-States31,800
Lydia24,000
Babylonia18,200
Sabaeans17,200
Phoenicia12,800
Karasuk culture8,800
Greek city-states (a description by the source, not a name)5,810
Assyria462

What changed since 1,000 BC

Now drawn

Neo-Assyrian Empire, Phrygia, Urartu, Hadhramaut, Greek City-States, Lydia, Sabaeans

No longer drawn

New Kingdom of Egypt, Neo-Hittite states, Kingdom of Israel, Greek Dark Ages, Phoenician Empire, Philistia

The same date elsewhere

World map · 700 BC Map of Europe · 700 BC Map of Africa · 700 BC Map of South Asia · 700 BC Map of East Asia · 700 BC Map of Southeast Asia · 700 BC Map of Central Asia · 700 BC Map of North America · 700 BC Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 700 BC Map of South America · 700 BC Map of Oceania · 700 BC

Source and method

Borders and names: Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 25°E–63°E, 12°N–42°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.

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