The world in 300 BC
On 1 July 300 BC, IntMap’s historical map draws 103 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 77 outlines whose name the record does not give for this date.
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.
| Name | Record | Drawn area (km²) |
|---|---|---|
| Khoiasan | historical-basemaps | 11,700,000 |
| Saharan Pastoral Nomads | historical-basemaps | 9,930,000 |
| Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 7,660,000 |
| Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 7,170,000 |
| West African cereal farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 5,910,000 |
| Arctic marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 5,910,000 |
| Manioc farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,840,000 |
| Savanna hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,820,000 |
| Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,330,000 |
| Amazon hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,280,000 |
| Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 3,530,000 |
| Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 3,320,000 |
| Seleucid Empire | Cliopatria Q705904 | 2,980,000 |
| Plain bison hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 2,850,000 |
| Maurya Empire | Cliopatria Q62943 | 2,630,000 |
| Desert hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 2,350,000 |
| Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 1,830,000 |
| Warring States China | Cliopatria | 1,570,000 |
| Yuezhi | Cliopatria Q467985 | 915,000 |
| Qin | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q34756 | 816,000 |
| Ptolemaic Kingdom | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q2320005 | 761,000 |
| Hindu kingdoms and republics (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 751,000 |
| Andean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 744,000 |
| Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 722,000 |
| Saami | historical-basemaps | 631,000 |
| Zhow states (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 578,000 |
| Chu | Cliopatria Q504759 | 557,000 |
| North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples | historical-basemaps | 533,000 |
| Caribbean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 513,000 |
| Carthaginian Empire | historical-basemaps | 508,000 |
| Zhangzhung Kingdom | historical-basemaps | 486,000 |
| Kingdom of Lysimachus | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps | 421,000 |
| Mauryan Empire | historical-basemaps | 400,000 |
| Minyue | Cliopatria Q1936158 | 378,000 |
| Scythia | Cliopatria | 365,000 |
| Maya chiefdoms and states (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 361,000 |
| Kingdom of Kush | Cliopatria Q241790 | 337,000 |
| Macedonian Empire | Cliopatria Q83958 | 302,000 |
| Celts | historical-basemaps | 289,000 |
| Meroe | historical-basemaps | 278,000 |
| Chorrera | historical-basemaps | 262,000 |
| Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 259,000 |
| Plain-Pottery culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 255,000 |
| Kingdom of Armenia | Cliopatria Q208404 | 242,000 |
| Adena Culture | historical-basemaps | 225,000 |
| Carthage | Cliopatria Q2429397 | 210,000 |
| Qataban | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q748595 | 189,000 |
| Brushed Pottery culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 184,000 |
| Nabatean Kingdom | historical-basemaps | 177,000 |
| Atropatene | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q260437 | 167,000 |
All 103 names
| Name | Record | Drawn area (km²) |
|---|---|---|
| Bell-shaped burials culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 159,000 |
| Ainu | historical-basemaps | 159,000 |
| Hindu kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 155,000 |
| Shellfish gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 149,000 |
| Seleucid Kingdom | historical-basemaps | 140,000 |
| Kalinga | Cliopatria | 129,000 |
| Qi | Cliopatria Q837855 | 120,000 |
| Hadramaut | historical-basemaps | 98,100 |
| Damot | historical-basemaps | 89,300 |
| Greek City-States | Cliopatria | 89,300 |
| Blemmyes | historical-basemaps | 88,900 |
| Hadhramaut | Cliopatria Q1517159 | 86,500 |
| Wei | Cliopatria Q912052 | 86,200 |
| Chavin | historical-basemaps | 82,900 |
| Cappadocia | historical-basemaps | 80,900 |
| Kingdom of Antigonus | historical-basemaps | 79,900 |
| Milograd culture | historical-basemaps | 79,100 |
| Eastern Masurian culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 74,500 |
| Simhala | historical-basemaps | 62,000 |
| Glades Culture | historical-basemaps | 59,100 |
| Monte Albán | historical-basemaps | 57,100 |
| Saba | historical-basemaps | 54,600 |
| Zhao | Cliopatria Q197430 | 51,500 |
| Colchis | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q183150 | 46,300 |
| Pomeranian culture | historical-basemaps | 44,400 |
| Bosporan Kingdom | historical-basemaps | 44,200 |
| Teotihuacán | historical-basemaps | 40,700 |
| Roman Republic | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q17167 | 40,500 |
| Yan | Cliopatria Q1055713 | 39,300 |
| Greek city-states (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 37,000 |
| Sabaeans | Cliopatria Q940785 | 35,800 |
| Song | Cliopatria Q1065073 | 34,700 |
| Western Masurian culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 32,600 |
| Etruscans | Cliopatria Q17161 | 31,700 |
| Cyrenaica | Cliopatria Q165198 | 31,100 |
| Paracas | historical-basemaps | 29,500 |
| Minaeans | Cliopatria | 28,600 |
| Curonians | historical-basemaps | 21,700 |
| Wankarani | historical-basemaps | 19,700 |
| Han | Cliopatria | 15,600 |
| Kingdom of Bithynia | Cliopatria Q3762571 | 14,600 |
| Zhongshan | Cliopatria Q59223 | 10,700 |
| Guanches | historical-basemaps | 9,080 |
| Lu | Cliopatria Q736936 | 8,950 |
| Sambian-Nothangian culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 8,310 |
| Cimmerian Bosporus | Cliopatria Q321371 | 6,740 |
| Zapotec Civilization | Cliopatria | 6,470 |
| Wey | Cliopatria Q1147897 | 5,700 |
| Armenia | historical-basemaps | 5,420 |
| Kingdom of Kassander | historical-basemaps | 4,640 |
| Crete | historical-basemaps | 2,760 |
| Bithynia | historical-basemaps | 783 |
| Yue | historical-basemaps | 111 |
What changed since 323 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 (12)
Seleucid Empire, Maurya Empire, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Mauryan Empire, Nabatean Kingdom, Seleucid Kingdom, Kalinga, Damot, Kingdom of Antigonus, Kingdom of Kassander, Crete, Bithynia
No longer drawn (10)
Nanda Empire, Ethiopian highland farmers, Magadha, Empire of Alexander, Laomedon, Perdiccas, Tasmanian hunter-gatherers, Athenian Coalition, Sabines, Rome
Events dated to 300 BC
The index of dated events holds no event for 300 BC.
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.
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