May 16, 2012

Watch the Lithuanian Empire grow and shrink …

… on this time-lapse map of Europe's last 1,000 years.

I used to teach "Western Civilizations," so I love stuff like this.

(Thanks to a Facebook friend for pointing out the map.)

4 comments:

Peter Hoh said...

Have you seen this video of shipping routes?

http://youtu.be/tnqxrcfUMsw

Irene said...

Thanks Peter. That's especially interesting because I used to study piracy.

Peter Hoh said...

That's what I gathered from one of your earlier posts.

Did you come at the topic from history, economics, or some other discipline?

Irene said...

History (late medieval).