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the swamp provides => AW:Dark Age => Topic started by: SagJangi on January 11, 2016, 12:38:41 PM

Title: Maps
Post by: SagJangi on January 11, 2016, 12:38:41 PM
I have not had a chance to play test AW Dark Ages but reading through the material as well as another book (Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors by Brian A. Catlos) gave me an idea.

Use an inverted, unmarked map of the Mediterranean to drive home the point that the setting is our Earth but not our history.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iiVVhI9AQ-cXp5Q0cwTEpDQ3M/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iiVVhI9AQ-cXp5Q0cwTEpDQ3M/view?usp=sharing)

and

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iiVVhI9AQ-dWdOdFRsOHBOQ3M/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iiVVhI9AQ-dWdOdFRsOHBOQ3M/view?usp=sharing)

Since the compass was not recorded to be used in the Mediterranean until the early 13th century simply mark the "east" and "west" of the map as the rising sun and setting sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass)

Muhammad al-Idrisi actually created a world map in the 1100's for the Norman king of Sicily. It was "upside down" in relation to modern maps.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iiVVhI9AQ-X0tjbFNSUzR2NE0/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iiVVhI9AQ-X0tjbFNSUzR2NE0/view?usp=sharing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Idrisi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Idrisi)