Why?
Constantinople has always been my favorite ancient city, I love it for the European architecture and it's famous port. The city was a center for trade that separated the "Western World" from the "Eastern World". It also took part in the famous silkroad (The trade of exotic goods such as spice and silk from parts of Asia and Europe). That alongside the fact that I need a map for a roleplay server I am creating, is why I decided to make a Minecraft map of Constantinople.
Aim
This map is not aimed to be historically accurate, it is rather built to capture to most famous and important landmarks and put them into an enjoyable map. Rather than spending countless hours building to city up to it's actual scale (Constantinople had 1,000,000 habitants while the next largest city in Europe had 50,000) I decided to like I said just mostly make the important buildings and a minimum amount of residence.
What the city may look like when finished
Constantinople
The Court Of Byzantium
The Palace Of Byzantium
Foyer
Washroom
Kings Dining Hall
The Royal Ballroom
The High Chancellors Quarters
The Kings Throne room
The Royal Speaking Place
Introducing.... Weekly Updates!
That's right starting sunday (7/3/11) I will post a weekly update of the map, this is to motivate me to do more work on the map, and help me get closer to my planned date of finish: the day that Minecraft supposedly releases.
Coming soon
11/11/11
