Map Room Ramblings | Atlas Altera

In this episode, we continue to do a general overview of Atlas Altera, focusing on the overall logic used for toponyms. Other topics covered: obscure historical references to people like the Macrobians and Jaga, Germany as an exonym, Polish Sarmatism, Nahuatl locative suffixes, the Inca Road system and the Chinese dao or "circuit" as an administrative system, exporting Sanskrit to Papua and Australia, as well as the the Ossetian connection in the Carpathians, and the Yeniseian link to the Navajo and the Huns. 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.

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In our debut episode, Tristan and Tabouli introduce the world map that became a one-hit wonder on Reddit, and discuss the general themes and overall thinking behind Atlas Altera. A screen capture video version is available on YouTube, where you will be able to access auto-generated captions. Learn awe-inspiring facts about our world as you're sucked into an alternate reality, differently imagined and yet so similar to our own.