Can You Date the Map? - Daily Challenge
Randall Munroe's famous xkcd comic Map Age Guide distilled two centuries of global geopolitics into a wonderfully simple flowchart for dating maps. Does the map show Germany divided into East and West? Is there a Yugoslavia? Does South Sudan exist? By answering a handful of such questions about borders and country names, the comic demonstrates how you can usually work out when almost any modern map was made. Date the Globe turns this idea into a really fun daily map game. Each day Date the Globe presents you with a new historical map. Your challenge is to identify the exact year the map was published using nothing more than the geopolitical clues it contains. Every border, country and place-name offers a clue. Some countries appear only briefly in history, borders shift over time, and official place-names change with political regimes. Reading the map becomes an exercise in historical detective work. You have six attempts to guess a year between 1900 and 2025. After each incorr...
