Cartographic Animation

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html





Cartographic animations like this one showing the evolution of empires to the modern independence of countries are useful in visualizing the differences in variables and cartographic information over time. Animations can show phenomena not readily visible in the real world. It is pretty amazing than groups of people were able to rule over such significant portions of the world at one time with such limited communication available. Maybe the internet could build the next empire.