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  1. Oct 2025
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    The Imperiia Project: Identifying Relationships
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    1. Andres.Mora_Ramirez 28 Oct 2025
      You see, place (a place being the sort of thing that is described by a geographic identifier, or toponym) is what holds the Imperiia project together. It is the element that allows us to analyze pieces of information that come from different sources and talk about different things as a coherent set.

      So basically the constant to evaluate the same maps was that they has the same administrative geography or vertical relationship between places: Provineces / states / departments, counties, cities, villages.

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    The Imperiia Project: Conducting Spatial Analysis
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    1. Andres.Mora_Ramirez 28 Oct 2025
      These processes rarely determine causality. Instead, they prepare us - students of history - to generate better answers to "why" questions than we would have had we committed the folly of leaving location out of the story.

      This is one of the reasons I really like studying maps because they can tell strories through the data and the patterns you observe when analyzing it.

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    The Imperiia Project: Locating Historical Places
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    1. Andres.Mora_Ramirez 28 Oct 2025
      river courses shift over time

      What are some examples of rivers that have changed courses ? I think I heard of one being diverted in Libya by Gaddafi through aquafers to bring water to arid regions, and that the Euphrates and Tigris rivers would change courses accross history but I would like to know other examples

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    The Imperiia Project: Converting Documents to Data
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    1. Andres.Mora_Ramirez 28 Oct 2025
      critical study of the source

      Critical study of the source means asking when was it made, why was it made, how was in made, what was the context in its creation and what goals did it set out to do. This must all be done to learn as much as you can from the source.

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