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Orbis Terrarum, the Roman Map

This map is based on a reconstruction of the Orbis Terrarum ("the circle of the world") completed by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (Augustus Caesar's son-in-law) in A.D. 20, and may represent how the ancient Romans saw the world. With Asia in the east at the top of the map, the three continents of the known world are in similar proportions. The egocentric emphasis upon Rome is reflected in the expanded form of Italy, and the fact that most of the area of the map is devoted to the Roman Empire while other regions such as India, Seres, Scythia and Sarmatia are reduced to small outlying regions on the periphery.

[This is the first Civ 5 map I have ever created; all comments are welcome!]

• Every single tile and item, including the landscape, features and resources, is carefully hand placed
  
• The large number of hills and mountains is intended to recreate the difficulty in traversing long distances in the antiquity
  
• Choke points are aplenty both on land and at sea, which means that you have to think carefully about where to place cities / forts / citadels / troops
  
• Resources, strategic, luxury and bonus, are placed with reference to their real world distribution (to the best of my knowledge after researching numerous maps)
  
• Taking into account the geographic context of each starting location, I have tried to make the starting location of each civ as balanced as possible, meaning that every civ should have around the same space / possibility of expansion (unlike on a "real world" map with an overcrowded Europe and too much space in Siberia and Central Asia).

Map size: 72 x 80

Requirements: Brave New World and Gods & Kings

22 Playable Civs:
Europe (9 civs)

• Roman
  
• Spanish
  
• French
  
• English
  
• German
  
• Danish
  
• Celtic (I put them in Central Europe because 1. I don't want the British Isles to get too crowded 2. that's where the Celts originated from... Let me know if this is a good decision?)
  
• Greek
  
• Russian

Africa (5 civs)

• Moroccan
  
• Carthaginian
  
• Ethiopian
  
• Songhai
  
• Egyptian

Asia (8 civs)

• Hunnic
  
• Ottoman
  
• Arabian
  
• Assyrian
  
• Babylonian
  
• Persian
  
• Indian
  
• Chinese

16 City States

• Cultured (3): Kiev, Yerevan, Kabul
  
• Maritime (3): Mombasa, Ur, Riga
  
• Mercantile (4): Colombo, Tyre, Samarkand, Zurich
  
• Militaristic (2): Hanoi, Valletta
  
• Religious (4): Kathmandu, Ife, Jerusalem, Lhasa

To play with pre-placed starting locations (rather than randomized locations), you need to

1. Choose MODS on the start menu
   
2. Select Orbis Terrarum, the Roman Map
   
3. SINGLE PLAYER --> SET UP GAME --> Select Map Type --> Additional Maps --> Orbis Terrarum, the Roman Map
   
4. Tick the Load Scenario check box

If you cannot find the map when setting up the game, you may need to manually copy the map from the mod folder ( Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Orbis Terrarum, the Roman Map (v 1)\orbis_terrarum.Civ5Map ) to your civ 5 maps folder ( Documents\My Games\Civ5\Maps ) for the game to pick it up.