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D&D already has a map thread, but it tends towards infographics of wars/money/poverty and heavy discussion. This thread is to historical stuff like maps that are just neat and/or don't fit into the D&D maps thread. Discussion is good, but this isn't D&D. If you want long well-thought out discussion about the 1950 wage levels of Brazil and how the movement of colonialism in the 1800s impacts today go to the D&D maps thread. If you need to split or resize images, it'd also be cool if you link the original source. To start, here are some cool things! The Tabula Peutingeriana, a map of the entire 4th century Roman road network. This is a facsimile of a reproduction made in the 1200s by a monk, and is over 20 feet long. It's so big that I couldn't use imgur, and even then I had to split it into two parts because the shape makes it hard to resize.   Wikipedia An 1853 Japanese map of the world by Suido Nakajima. Japan at this time was isolated (but soon was not to be) from the Western world but had some trade with the Dutch, so the map is surprisingly accurate. It's a very weird map because things seem to be labeled at whatever angle Nakajima felt like; there are characters that are upside down or sideways, even when they don't need to be.  Wikimedia An 1898 map of the business district of Chicago by the Poole Bros. Extremely detailed, down to the trams and trains crossing everywhere. Also amazing is the number of banks.  Big Map Blog The joys of medieval manuscript illustration! Sometimes divine, and sometimes you wonder WTF people were thinking. All from Discarding Images.  Hi, Mr. Skeleton!  Meta is not a new thing.  Memento mori. References to death were pretty common and were usually meant to humble people and remind them that they too would be judged by God. Have fun sharing, everyone!
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First thing that came to mind was Hellmouth (An angel locking the gates of Hell with a key). Gyre posted:The joys of medieval manuscript illustration! Sometimes divine, and sometimes you wonder WTF people were thinking. All from Discarding Images. So much cool stuff here.
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