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How is relative power measured? I am curious, because it reminds me of the Civ III Histographs which had some underlying formula. Ex: http://www.civ3.com/previ

• ghaff 12y ago
  No idea in the case of this map, but in Why the West Rules--For Now, the author comes up with a fairly complex social development index which factors in things like population, largest city, agriculture, etc. http://shc.stanford.edu/news/research/why-west-rules%E2%80%94-now http://shc.stanford.edu/news/research/why-west-rules%E2%80%9... He focuses solely on the Western and Eastern cores however. If you're interested in the topic, you might want to check out that book. (It's a good read as a whole as well.)