Help me find a good map for 753 BCE

[Vesayen]

I am working on a game which starts in 753 BCE, i.e. the mythical founding of Rome. It needs to show most of Europe, all of if possible, north africa and chunk of Asia of possible. Something which does not look like a blank outline and is not ugly, but not so detailed that I cannot clearly differentiate different countries(players)

I also need to find a list of nations and major city states which actually existed in 753 BC, in Europe and the Mediterranean.

Finding either has been much more difficult than I thought. Anyone care to lend me a hand?

[Boris Godunov]

http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/ENGLISH/B0725.html

[Vesayen]

I appreciate the help, but that is much too big and has far too few details. I am interested in the Mediterranean, Europe, north Africa and a bit of Asia, the Asyrian/Persian empire if possible..... most of the map is just of no help.

[Ben Kenobi]

As far as I can tell:

Haojing
Luoyang
Anyang
Jiyuan
Puyang
Kaifeng
Denfeng
Xi'an
Xingtai
Qufu

Are the only cities that are known to exist in this period in China, during the Zhou dynasty. Beijing is about as old as Rome, so you may wish to include it here too.

[SlowwHand]

What a pig. Here's hoping someone can drop a map of a myth on you, that requires nothing from you.

[Ben Kenobi]

http://explorethemed.com/Images/Maps/EthnicArchaic936.jpg

If you want to stick to the mediterreanean, here are the Greeks and their interrelationship to one another.

And a city list:

Larissa
Thebes
Chalkis
Athens
Megara
Corinth
Argos
Tegea
Megalopolis
Sparta
Mantinea
Pylos
Olympia
Elis
Ambracia
Delphi
Delos
Phiastos
Knossos
Halicarnassus
Rhodes
Samos
Miletus
Ephesus
Smyrna
Phocaea
Pergamum
Mylitene

[Vesayen]

I meant cities in Europe, the mediteranean and western asia/the middle east. As to slowhand. A map of a myth? We have some decent maps of the era.

I found some very detailed ones, the problem is they are so detailed its impossible to read them. I can only seem to find blank ones, or ones which are so clustered as to be unreadable.

Edit: Ah! I found that one earlier but lost it, that helps me fill out Greece, thanks Ben.

[giblets]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...8th_century_BC

Knock yourself out.

[SlowwHand]

I meant cities in Europe, the mediteranean and western asia/the middle east. As to slowhand. A map of a myth? We have some decent maps of the era.

I can tell how plentiful and easy they are to find.

[Vesayen]

Ben, that map is a huge help, thank you.

[giblets]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...ry_BCE_history

might help with the assyrians

[Ben Kenobi]

Sais
Busiris
Tanis
Avaria
Bubastis
Leontopolis
Memphis
Herakleopolis
Hermopolis
Asyut
Abydos
Thebes
Aswan

For Egypt, all in the delta.

[giblets]

http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/greek_colonies/

[Ben Kenobi]

For the Phoenicians, who were the world power at the time:

Byblos
Tyre
Sidon
Simyra
Arwad
Berytus
Arka
Beirut
Batroun
Porphyreon
Safita
Tripoli
Sarepta
Ugarit
Zemar

all in Lebanon

Carthage
Hippo Regius
Gadir (Cadiz)
Karalis (Cagliari)
Palermo
Leptis Magna
Malaca (Malaga)

Are their known colonies.

[Ben Kenobi]

http://www.itamerensuomi.net/etno/it_Etruscan_Leagues.pdf

For Etruria.

That should be it.