The world in 100

On 1 July 100, IntMap’s historical map draws 118 names across the world. The borders for this date come from Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. It also draws 148 outlines whose name the record does not give for this date.

World map on 1 July 100: the borders IntMap’s historical map draws on that date, from Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent.
Drawn when the site is built from the same records and the same code the map uses, on 1 July 100, in the Equal Earth projection. The picture is simplified for display only: each outline is reduced to about one pixel at this size, and outlines smaller than a pixel are left out of the picture — the map itself draws every one of them in full. Grey is land on which no record states a polity on this date (today’s coastline, Natural Earth 1:110m).

Why this year has a page

The historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for this year.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate. The record column says which record draws the outline; a Wikidata item is given where the record links one.

NameRecordDrawn area (km²)
Khoiasanhistorical-basemaps11,700,000
Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps7,600,000
Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps7,170,000
Arctic marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps5,910,000
West African cereal farmers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps5,900,000
Savanna hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps4,820,000
Roman EmpireCliopatria · historical-basemaps Q22774,690,000
Han DynastyCliopatria Q72094,590,000
Amazon hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps4,280,000
Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps4,130,000
Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps3,530,000
Plain bison hunters (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps2,790,000
Parthian EmpireCliopatria · historical-basemaps Q19861392,710,000
Desert hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps2,350,000
Kushan EmpireCliopatria · historical-basemaps Q259791,900,000
Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps1,830,000
XiongnuCliopatria Q1888361,440,000
XianbeiCliopatria Q861054996,000
Satavahana DynastyCliopatria Q5257893,000
Hopewell Culturehistorical-basemaps779,000
Hindu kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps774,000
Andean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps744,000
Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps722,000
Saamihistorical-basemaps631,000
North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peopleshistorical-basemaps533,000
Caribbean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps513,000
Himyarite KingdomCliopatria · historical-basemaps Q289577482,000
Laurel complexhistorical-basemaps368,000
Kingdom of KushCliopatria Q241790337,000
Western SatrapsCliopatria Q2086608328,000
Meroehistorical-basemaps304,000
Southern XiongnuCliopatria · historical-basemaps Q188836292,000
Hanhistorical-basemaps284,000
Yayoihistorical-basemaps281,000
Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps259,000
Plain-Pottery culture (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps258,000
Kalingahistorical-basemaps249,000
FunanCliopatria Q867782246,000
Point Peninsulahistorical-basemaps244,000
Swift Creek Culturehistorical-basemaps222,000
Kingdom of ArmeniaCliopatria Q208404218,000
Alanshistorical-basemaps207,000
Satavahaniharahistorical-basemaps206,000
Mayan City-StatesCliopatria Q28567199,000
Brushed Pottery culture (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps184,000
Maya chiefdoms and states (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps169,000
Ainuhistorical-basemaps159,000
Bell-shaped burials culture (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps155,000
Shellfish gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps149,000
Marksville Culturehistorical-basemaps149,000
All 118 names
NameRecordDrawn area (km²)
Indo-ScythiansCliopatria Q240123122,000
GothsCliopatria Q42193117,000
Daciahistorical-basemaps117,000
Pyu City-StatesCliopatria Q1627675117,000
Paleo-Inuithistorical-basemaps102,000
Mochehistorical-basemaps98,500
Milograd culturehistorical-basemaps97,800
Kingdom of AxumCliopatria Q13937797,500
GoguryeoCliopatria Q2837094,600
NabataeansCliopatria Q22059491,400
Blemmyeshistorical-basemaps88,900
HadhramautCliopatria Q151715986,500
Scythianshistorical-basemaps79,500
Hadramauthistorical-basemaps78,500
Eastern Masurian culture (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps74,500
AnurādhapuraCliopatria Q572474,200
Fourche Maline Culturehistorical-basemaps70,600
Zapotec CivilizationCliopatria70,000
Yuebanhistorical-basemaps69,400
Nabatean Kingdomhistorical-basemaps65,100
Tasmanian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps59,400
Glades Culturehistorical-basemaps59,100
Couture Complexhistorical-basemaps51,800
Porterhistorical-basemaps50,700
Goodall Focushistorical-basemaps50,300
Kingdom of OsroeneCliopatria Q23723450,100
Caucasian AlbaniaCliopatria Q17707650,000
Boihaenumhistorical-basemaps50,000
MahanCliopatria49,900
Copenahistorical-basemaps46,600
Millerhistorical-basemaps44,300
Nazcahistorical-basemaps41,900
Cimmerian BosporusCliopatria Q32137140,200
WusunCliopatria Q85406239,900
Teotihuacánhistorical-basemaps38,800
Caucasian IberiaCliopatria Q1908335,700
Early PandyasCliopatria32,700
Western Masurian culture (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps32,600
Saugeen Complexhistorical-basemaps32,600
Dong-okjeoCliopatria Q71339332,000
Early CholasCliopatria Q353214629,000
DongyeCliopatria29,000
Pomeranian culturehistorical-basemaps26,300
Early CherasCliopatria25,500
Mill Creek Culturehistorical-basemaps25,400
Kingdom of SopheneCliopatria Q262610523,800
Arakanhistorical-basemaps23,700
JinhanCliopatria Q70127323,500
Monte Albánhistorical-basemaps23,100
Curonianshistorical-basemaps21,700
LazicaCliopatria Q13688418,100
Kingdom of GordyeneCliopatria14,300
Armeniahistorical-basemaps13,900
Kingdom of AdiabeneCliopatria13,800
ByeonhanCliopatria Q137858413,700
Saka Kingdomhistorical-basemaps11,400
Guancheshistorical-basemaps9,080
Sambian-Nothangian culture (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps8,310
TeotihuacanCliopatria Q1726135,690
Axumhistorical-basemaps5,090
Sillahistorical-basemaps1,150
Paekchehistorical-basemaps1,060
Bosporian Kingdomhistorical-basemaps962
Koguryohistorical-basemaps854
Suren Kingdomhistorical-basemaps371
Hainanhistorical-basemaps217
Gayahistorical-basemaps154
Dumoniihistorical-basemaps113

What changed since 1 BC

Names counted are those the records date to the year or the day (CShapes, OpenHistoricalMap, Cliopatria). Outlines filled from the nearest historical-basemaps sheet are counted only when both years are years that sheet was drawn for — otherwise the change would be the switch between two sheets, not a change in the world. Names are compared as written, so a polity a record names differently in the two years (Carthaginian Empire, then Carthage) is in both lists.

Now drawn (13)

Kushan Empire, Xianbei, Western Satraps, Southern Xiongnu, Yayoi, Funan, Alans, Goths, Pyu City-States, Scythians, Yueban, Paekche, Gaya

No longer drawn (12)

Yuezhi, Mascat, Mauretania, Thracian Kingdom, Kingdom of Cappadocia, Kingdom of Pontus, Indo-Greeks, Judea, Great Yuan, Greek City-States, Kingdom of Commagene, Odrysian Kingdom

Events dated to 100

The index of dated events holds no event for 100.

Sources 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.

Which years have a page is worked out when the site is built, from three rules applied to the records themselves: every year the historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for; every year whose change from the year before (names the dated records begin or stop drawing) is in the top 5% of all such year-to-year changes since the dated records begin, leaving out the years where one record hands over to another; and every year of a geopolitical, war or revolution event in the dated events index, up to the last year the border records cover (2019).

On each year the map is read on 1 July, the instant the app’s own year links open on. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation. A name is what a record draws there, not a verdict of history.

World map in 100 — the map, with the years it stays the same Historical maps by region Countries On this day

All data sources →

Share this page

X Bluesky Threads Facebook LINE Reddit

Each link opens that service in a new tab with the address of this page filled in. Nothing is sent until you post it there yourself.