A History of the World's Conflicts, as Mapped by Google - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic

A History of the World's Conflicts, as Mapped by Google - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic: "A History of the World's Conflicts, as Mapped by Google
SEP 2 2011, 2:51 PM ET2
A new website, Conflict History, overlays information from Wikipedia on Google Maps to create a comprehensive look at conflict

It's a sad fact of life that the history of war is inherent in humanity itself. Though Cicero defined war simply as "contending by force," armed conflicts have permeated the globe for so long that "world peace" remains a theory rather than an foreseeable moment of planetary non-violence.

While students of history often focus on single conflicts, a new website illustrates how isolated battles overlap and entwine into a never-ending strand of conflict. Conflict History is a Google Maps timeline that spotlights the course of wars across human history by scraping information from Wikipedia and Freebase."

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