{"id":7,"date":"2007-01-05T20:14:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T01:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/7"},"modified":"2017-07-09T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T01:31:13","slug":"maps-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/7","title":{"rendered":"Maps of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this via a <a href=http:\/\/themediadude.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/visual-history-of-middle-east.html>post<\/a> by my cousin, <a href=http:\/\/themediadude.blogspot.com><\/a>TheMediaDude.  It&#8217;s an animated map of who has controlled the Middle East for the past 5000 years, and it is quite simply the reason why computers were invented:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/images\/EMPIRE17.swf\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/images\/EMPIRE17.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are some other animated maps at <a href=http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com><\/a>Maps of War including one showing the <a href=http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/ind\/history-of-religion.html>History of Religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s there is great, but there&#8217;s not much of it, so if you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ll start to get a thirst for more historical maps.  You can quench that thirst at the University of Texas <a href=http:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/maps\/historical><\/a>Perry-Casta\u00c3\u00b1eda Library Map Collection.<\/p>\n<p><!--1403b295cc23e068d1e724bea05044f8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this via a post by my cousin, TheMediaDude. It&#8217;s an animated map of who has controlled the Middle East for the past 5000 years, and it is quite simply the reason why computers were invented: There are some other animated maps at Maps of War including one showing the History of Religion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,44,4,6,65,46,110,14,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-genghis-khan","category-history","category-international","category-maps","category-religion","category-shout-out","category-universities","category-video","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}