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Map Room Ramblings | Atlas AlteraAuthor: Telamon Tabulicus
Tired of learning geography and history in an uninspired world? In the Map Room, a cartographer and a geographer sit down and have backstage discussions on all things related to Atlas Altera, a creative exercise that repaints the world while going hardcore on real geography, anthropology, linguistics, and history. Learn awe-inspiring facts about our world as you're sucked into an alternate reality, differently imagined and yet so similar to our own. You can watch the video versions on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tAH-Wst_JzA Dig deeper on www.atlasaltera.com Language: en Genres: Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Origins of Regions - Toponyms
Episode 12
Saturday, 4 September, 2021
Following episodes 11 and 2, we now turn to exploring how and why the different regions of the world of Altera got their names. Other topics covered: the four ways to divide the continent of Africa; Eritrea as an exonym; Nubia's Baqt treaty's connection to the Zanj Rebellion in Mesopotamia; an Zanj, Zanzibar, and Azania as cognates and Sudan as an analogous term; defining the new boundaries for Asia; the many possible etymologies of Siberia; reapplying the Greco term Taprobana to Australia; how places like Guinea, Ethiopia, Thule, and Hesperia were geographic moving targets until recently; the emerging political geography of Turtle Island; and lamentations for missed opportunities of basing place names on Tierra del Fuego, Andina, and the Caribbean. Tired of learning geography and history in an uninspired world? Atlas Altera is a creative exercise that repaints the world while going hardcore on real geography, anthropology, linguistics, and history. For more content, visit www.atlasaltera.com or watch the video on YouTube.
