Are you surprised or is it as you would have expected?
A new ‘geography of violence’ map reveals where in the world major battles in the past 4,000 years have taken place.
The interactive journey through ‘every battle’ has been created not from historical records but from entries to Wikipedia.
It was created by a Dutch company LAB1100, a research and development firm established by Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels. Explore the map here.
They used Wikidata and DBpedia, which extracts…
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According to this map, Mongolia looks like it has seen no violence. Yet we know where Genghis Khan came from. This is an utterly fail project unsuitable for education and I’m sad that only 15% of the Telegraph’s readers realize that.
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Ha!
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According to this map, Greenland looks like a safe place to live!
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ll meet you there!
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It shows huge bias as to what goes in. For example, there are plenty of battles going on in Afghanistan but this concentrates on Europe and N America. Furthermore, most societies have not been keeping especially detailed records of battles over the last 4000 years
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Fair enough, Simon.
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Bravo, Simon! Maybe we could use the same map to show where the best art and literature comes from. lol
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Last weekend I walked along a section of the Ridgeway used for thoussands of years. For much of that time Britain was an illiterate society (or maybe it wasn’t but we don’t know that yet). Doubtlessly the strategic ridge would have witnessed hundreds of battles in the Iron Age etc – but nobody knows about them.
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it is rubbish
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You’re so fierce!
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