The world in 300

On 1 July 300, IntMap’s historical map draws 107 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 158 outlines whose name the record does not give for this date.

World map on 1 July 300: 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 300, 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-basemaps5,870,000
Savanna hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps4,820,000
Western JinCliopatria Q73524,380,000
Amazon hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps4,280,000
Roman EmpireCliopatria Q22774,190,000
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
Sasanian EmpireCliopatria Q838912,940,000
Plain bison hunters (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps2,790,000
Desert hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps2,350,000
Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps1,830,000
Western SatrapsCliopatria Q2086608844,000
Hopewell Culturehistorical-basemaps779,000
Indo-Sasanian EmpireCliopatria750,000
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
GothiaCliopatria633,000
Saamihistorical-basemaps631,000
Vakataka KingdomCliopatria Q1501306576,000
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 Q289577417,000
Mayan City-StatesCliopatria Q28567380,000
Laurel complexhistorical-basemaps368,000
Kingdom of KushCliopatria Q241790337,000
Empire of Ghanahistorical-basemaps335,000
Eastern KushansCliopatria Q25979313,000
Meroehistorical-basemaps304,000
Jinhistorical-basemaps303,000
TuyuhunCliopatria Q1196201279,000
Rome (Maximian)historical-basemaps269,000
Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps259,000
Lakhmid KingdomCliopatria Q943191259,000
FunanCliopatria Q867782246,000
Point Peninsulahistorical-basemaps244,000
Kalingahistorical-basemaps228,000
Swift Creek Culturehistorical-basemaps222,000
Kingdom of ArmeniaCliopatria Q208404218,000
Ainuhistorical-basemaps159,000
Shellfish gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps149,000
Marksville Culturehistorical-basemaps149,000
Kingdom of AxumCliopatria Q139377134,000
GoguryeoCliopatria Q28370126,000
Hindu kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps125,000
Saka Kingdomhistorical-basemaps120,000
Pyu City-StatesCliopatria Q1627675117,000
All 107 names
NameRecordDrawn area (km²)
Paleo-Inuithistorical-basemaps102,000
BurgundiansCliopatria Q150412100,000
Rome (Diocletianus)historical-basemaps99,000
Mochehistorical-basemaps98,500
HadhramautCliopatria Q151715998,400
Blemmyeshistorical-basemaps88,900
Hadramauthistorical-basemaps78,500
AnurādhapuraCliopatria Q572474,200
ChámpaCliopatria Q21678673,100
Fourche Maline Culturehistorical-basemaps70,600
Zapotec CivilizationCliopatria70,000
Yuebanhistorical-basemaps69,400
Tasmanian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps59,400
Glades Culturehistorical-basemaps59,100
HunsCliopatria Q4581358,300
Couture Complexhistorical-basemaps51,800
Late Pallava EmpireCliopatria Q46680351,200
Porterhistorical-basemaps50,700
Goodall Focushistorical-basemaps50,300
Caucasian AlbaniaCliopatria Q17707650,000
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
Saugeen Complexhistorical-basemaps32,600
Early CholasCliopatria Q353214629,000
DongyeCliopatria29,000
Rome (Galerius)historical-basemaps27,600
Early CherasCliopatria25,500
Mill Creek Culturehistorical-basemaps25,400
Ripuarian FranksCliopatria Q31686025,400
JinhanCliopatria Q70127323,500
Monte Albánhistorical-basemaps23,100
LazicaCliopatria Q13688418,100
NorseCliopatria16,400
ByeonhanCliopatria Q137858413,700
Armeniahistorical-basemaps13,600
Kingdom of AdiabeneCliopatria13,300
Rome (Constantinus)historical-basemaps11,600
Guancheshistorical-basemaps9,080
Maya chiefdoms and states (a description by the source, not a name)historical-basemaps9,060
SaxonsCliopatria Q1019856,330
TeotihuacanCliopatria Q1726135,690
Herulihistorical-basemaps5,520
Axumhistorical-basemaps5,090
TamnaCliopatria Q280571,970
Sillahistorical-basemaps1,300
Koguryohistorical-basemaps897
Paekchehistorical-basemaps420
Hainanhistorical-basemaps217
Dumoniihistorical-basemaps113
Gayahistorical-basemaps52

What changed since 200

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 (21)

Western Jin, Sasanian Empire, Indo-Sasanian Empire, Gothia, Saami, Vakataka Kingdom, Empire of Ghana, Eastern Kushans, Jin, Tuyuhun, Rome (Maximian), Lakhmid Kingdom, Hindu kingdoms, Rome (Diocletianus), Chámpa, Late Pallava Empire, Rome (Galerius), Ripuarian Franks, Rome (Constantinus), Saxons, Tamna

No longer drawn (20)

Xianbei, Han Dynasty, Parthian Empire, Kushan Empire, Satavahana Dynasty, Protectorate of the Western Regions, Sámi, Magadha, Han, Satavahanihara, Cao Cao, Chola, Indo-Scythians, Goths, Sabaeans, Kingdom of Osroene, Boihaenum, Kingdom of Gordyene, Bosporian Kingdom, Suren Kingdom

Events dated to 300

The index of dated events holds no event for 300.

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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