GeoCast

09/28/2025

09/25/2025

Hypnotizing!

09/23/2025

Ancient Civilization Series - Day 18: The Great Pyramids of Egypt stand as marvels of ancient engineering and planning. Their layout wasn’t random — each pyramid, tomb, and causeway was carefully positioned along the Nile and aligned with celestial bodies, reflecting the Egyptians’ advanced knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, and religion. These monuments were not just tombs, but symbols of power, faith, and cosmic order. This is the final post of our Ancient Civilization Series. Thank you for following along and — your support made this journey memorable!

09/23/2025

The World According to Google Street View

09/22/2025

Ancient Civilization Series | Day 17
Ancient Egypt’s society was structured like a pyramid. At the top stood the Pharaoh, seen as a living god. Just below were the nobles and military leaders who enforced his rule and kept order. Priests and scribes preserved knowledge and religion, while craftspeople and merchants drove trade. Most Egyptians were peasant farmers, working the land to sustain the kingdom. At the base were slaves, often captured in war, who served in households and fields.

09/21/2025

Ancient Civilization Series - Day 16 : The Silk Road, for centuries, this vast trade network connected China, India, the Middle East, and Europe. More than just silk, merchants carried spices, glass, paper, and ideas across thousands of miles. The routes shown here shaped world history, linking civilizations and cultures in ways still felt today. P.S. Ancient civilization series is almost coming to an end (few more posts still to come). It has been a great series to make. Should I make more like this? Let me know in the comments!

09/19/2025

Ancient Civilization Series | Day 15
Trade thrived in the Fertile Crescent as Sumerians used barter to exchange goods, scribes kept records on clay tablets, and canals carried merchants across Mesopotamia’s rivers. Barter connected farmers, artisans, and merchants, while writing and commerce grew hand in hand, shaping the world’s earliest markets.

09/18/2025

Ancient Civilizations Series – Day 14
In the cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia thrived not only on fertile lands but also on far-reaching trade. By the 3rd millennium BCE, Sumerian cities exchanged pottery, textiles, and metalwork for Lebanese cedar, African gold, Arabian copper, Elamite lapis lazuli, and Indus Valley ivory. These trade routes connected cultures across continents, laying the foundations of early globalization and strengthening Mesopotamia’s role as history’s first great urban society. Also you see how there is no connection between Red sea and Mediterranean?!

09/17/2025

Ancient Civilization Series - Day 13 : Map of Ancient Greece showing major city-states such as Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, and Delphi, along with Crete, Troy, and Mt. Olympus. Greece’s mountainous terrain and its position between the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean Sea shaped trade, culture, and warfare.

09/16/2025

Ancient Civilization Series - Day 12: Rome’s empire ran on trade — Spanish olive oil/Silver, Gaulish wine, Egyptian grain, African ivory. The Mediterranean wasn’t just a sea, it was Rome’s lifeline. Yeah sure, wars can get you new land but trade sustained it!

09/14/2025

Ancient Civilization Series – Day 11: At its peak in 117 AD, the Roman Empire spanned 5 million km² ; from Britain to Mesopotamia, and the Rhine to North Africa — ruling over up to 70 million people, nearly a quarter of the world’s population. A vast web of roads, cities, and trade bound it together, leaving a legacy still felt today. There is a common saying in Europe that, “All roads lead to Rome”! And they say it for good reason!

09/13/2025

Ancient Civilization Series - Day 10 : Ashoka’s Maurya Empire covered most of the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BCE. Roughly at the same time, the Han Dynasty ruled China and expanded its borders across East Asia. These two powers were connected through early trade routes that later became the Silk Road (green line).