A Web-based resource I'd like to see.

[womzilla]

And by posting about it here, I hope to find it:

A comprehensive set of political maps of the historical world. That is, a site where you could specify a date (ranging from, say, 100,000 BCE to 2005 CE) and you could get a set of maps of the known and conjectured political boundaries of the human population. Population charts would be great, too, but I really want a site where I can choose 1770 and see the boundaries of the New World colonies, then zip to 44 BCE and see the extent of the Roman Republic at the death of G Julius Caesar, then to 7890 BCE and see what the best guesses of the migration of human settlement are. Anyone know of such a thing?

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Back when I lived in Seattle, a magazine I worked for had a series of such maps in the loft where they did production. Someone must have retrieved it from a school somewhere. The maps were huge, maybe 4' x 2-1/2', and folded over each other like the pages of a book. I love maps, and I must've spent hours looking at these. I especially liked seeing the whole world at once, and viewing the relative sizes of, say, the Chinese, Inca, and Holy Roman empires.