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This map is terribly inaccurate

Um, this map is wrong. Archaeological evidence shows West Africa (and also North Africa!) was smelting Iron by 1000 BC. If you want you can change the date to 3000 BC, otherwise you're just plain wrong.

I find it incredibly odd that, for Zhou-era China, Wu is included but Yue is not (perhaps the area inhabited by Thais is meant to be Yue). Also, Wu and Yue are more associated with the Spring and Autumn period of Zhou history, several hundred years after the date on this map, but still in the Zhou dynasty. In addition to this, why would one separate Wu from the rest of the Zhou dynasty, but then have the other states at the time conglomerated into one "Zhou Dynasty" state? Seems strange to me.