The world in 700 BC
On 1 July 700 BC, IntMap’s historical map draws 101 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 94 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 (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 9,900,000 |
| Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 7,600,000 |
| 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 | 6,030,000 |
| Arctic marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 5,910,000 |
| Proto-Altaic pastoralists (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,990,000 |
| Savanna hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,820,000 |
| Manioc farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,770,000 |
| Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,440,000 |
| Karasuk culture | historical-basemaps | 4,360,000 |
| Amazon hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,280,000 |
| Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 3,600,000 |
| Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 3,530,000 |
| Tibetans | historical-basemaps | 3,310,000 |
| Plain bison hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 2,850,000 |
| Iranian pastoralists (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 2,840,000 |
| Vedic Aryans | historical-basemaps | 2,550,000 |
| Arabian pastoral nomads (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 2,520,000 |
| Desert hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 2,350,000 |
| Austro-Asiatic rice farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 2,200,000 |
| Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 1,830,000 |
| Urnfield cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 1,650,000 |
| N. European Bronze Age cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 1,640,000 |
| Sinic | historical-basemaps | 1,630,000 |
| Maize farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 1,590,000 |
| Cimerians | historical-basemaps | 1,540,000 |
| Austronesians | historical-basemaps | 1,280,000 |
| Dravidians | historical-basemaps | 1,210,000 |
| Berbers | historical-basemaps | 1,090,000 |
| Papuan neolithic farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 1,050,000 |
| Spring and Autumn States | Cliopatria | 1,010,000 |
| Burmese | historical-basemaps | 961,000 |
| Neo-Assyrian Empire | Cliopatria Q10914393 | 920,000 |
| 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 |
| Kingdom of Kush | Cliopatria Q241790 | 565,000 |
| Celtiberians | historical-basemaps | 548,000 |
| 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 |
| Zhoa | historical-basemaps | 442,000 |
| Elam | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q128904 | 435,000 |
| Ethiopian highland farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 376,000 |
| Proto-Scythian culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 367,000 |
| Chu | Cliopatria Q504759 | 353,000 |
| state societies and Aramaean kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 352,000 |
| Arameans | historical-basemaps | 288,000 |
| Late Jomon culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 281,000 |
| Chernoles culture | historical-basemaps | 279,000 |
All 101 names
| Name | Record | Drawn area (km²) |
|---|---|---|
| Chorrera | historical-basemaps | 262,000 |
| Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 259,000 |
| Thrace | historical-basemaps | 256,000 |
| Wu | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q912068 | 245,000 |
| Lusatian culture | historical-basemaps | 233,000 |
| Illyrians | historical-basemaps | 221,000 |
| Milograd culture | historical-basemaps | 188,000 |
| Phrygia | Cliopatria Q32579 | 188,000 |
| Ainu | historical-basemaps | 159,000 |
| El Paraiso | historical-basemaps | 157,000 |
| Paleo-Koreans | historical-basemaps | 150,000 |
| Shellfish gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 149,000 |
| Hittites | historical-basemaps | 147,000 |
| Jin | Cliopatria Q912043 | 137,000 |
| Urartu | historical-basemaps | 108,000 |
| Qi | Cliopatria Q837855 | 103,000 |
| Saba | historical-basemaps | 99,900 |
| Egypt | historical-basemaps | 97,600 |
| Greek City-States | Cliopatria | 92,200 |
| Hadhramaut | Cliopatria Q1517159 | 86,200 |
| Chavin | historical-basemaps | 82,900 |
| Greek city-states (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 72,800 |
| Kush | historical-basemaps | 71,400 |
| Tasmanian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 59,400 |
| Qin | Cliopatria Q34756 | 56,500 |
| Yan | Cliopatria Q1055713 | 49,700 |
| Olmec | historical-basemaps | 48,700 |
| Chinchoros | historical-basemaps | 45,900 |
| Phrygians | historical-basemaps | 45,500 |
| Lu | Cliopatria Q736936 | 43,600 |
| Etruscans | Cliopatria Q17161 | 42,500 |
| Kingdom of David and Solomon | historical-basemaps | 35,900 |
| Phoenicia | Cliopatria Q41642 | 28,400 |
| La Tène culture | historical-basemaps | 28,100 |
| Lydia | Cliopatria Q620765 | 24,000 |
| Song | Cliopatria Q1065073 | 22,600 |
| Babylonia | historical-basemaps | 18,200 |
| Phoenician Empire | Cliopatria Q41642 | 18,100 |
| Sabaeans | Cliopatria Q940785 | 17,200 |
| Guanches | historical-basemaps | 9,080 |
| Wey | Cliopatria Q1147897 | 7,020 |
| Zhu | Cliopatria Q227007 | 6,650 |
| Phoenician Colonies | Cliopatria | 6,350 |
| Zheng | Cliopatria Q197598 | 5,280 |
| Chen | Cliopatria Q1069690 | 5,050 |
| Xu | Cliopatria Q2650109 | 4,630 |
| Teng | Cliopatria Q1356151 | 4,320 |
| Cao | Cliopatria Q284964 | 4,010 |
| Cai | Cliopatria Q1025803 | 3,690 |
| Roman Kingdom | Cliopatria Q201038 | 857 |
| Assyria | historical-basemaps | 462 |
What changed since 1,000 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 (31)
Spring and Autumn States, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Proto-Scythian culture, Chu, Chernoles culture, Lusatian culture, Milograd culture, Phrygia, Jin, Urartu, Qi, Greek City-States, Hadhramaut, Qin, Yan, Lu, Etruscans, La Tène culture, Lydia, Song, Sabaeans, Wey, Zhu, Phoenician Colonies, Zheng, Chen, Xu, Teng, Cao, Cai, Roman Kingdom
No longer drawn (7)
Zhou Dynasty, New Kingdom of Egypt, Gandhara grave culture, Greek Dark Ages, Neo-Hittite states, Kingdom of Israel, Philistia
Events dated to 700 BC
The index of dated events holds no event for 700 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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