The Americas in 1770
This map shows the 7 states and peoples the data has for The Americas in that year.
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States and peoples in the Americas in 1770
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- British Colonial Empire
- Greenland
- New France
- New Netherland
- Haudenosaunee
Gone from the map by 1795
New France · Haudenosaunee
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The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.