All anachronisms notwithstanding. It's inspiration not history.Credit for the map is not mine, so to the original creator out there in the aether.The Dothraki seem more Turkic than Monglian, even though there are arguably analogs with the latter. The Mongol Empire that extended far west beyond Mongolia had broken up into various Turkic khanates by the Late Middle Ages / European Renaissance, so a Turkic group seemed appropriate.The Free Cities are rather European, going north. But they speak decendents of the Valyrian language so that kinda makes them this Greco-Roman thing too. Although Valyria could be compared with Rome as well, I feel like Greece is overall a better comparison, esp. with the shape of their peninsula, and Valyrian just sounds closer to Greek than Latin to me. So it's like if the German portion and all of the Holy Roman Empire (cf. Norvos, Lorath, the Axe, Braavos) spoke Latin or Greek instead. That would make Braavos more like Amsterdam than the Rhodes/Venice depiction in the show. (You coud make a case for it all being Slavic, being north of Byzantine-like regions, but the Andals are analog to the Germanic peoples coming from a narrow little peninsula that looks like Denmark.)France doesn't seem to get to play, though maybe you could make a case for it being the Reach.I chose Ukraine rather than Russia, because most of Russia is higher in latitude, in line with Scandanavia (which here is beyond the Wall). It's not hard and fast cause that region is literally called MossovyGhis always struck me as Indian in the books. The pyramids and deserts make the whole region from Qarth to Meereen like Egypt too.Why there are so many white-ass people (it's east of the China analog) coming from Asshai, i.e. the Shadow Lands, i.e. Fake India—I do not know.Africa is reduced (by GRRM) to basically just some islands (at least on this map) and Sothoryos is some other surviving hominid species that kinda sound like gorilla people so that better not be Africa. That continent is a shitshow. I forgot that there are literally people riding around on zorses in the books. (Jogos Nhai: Xiongnu / Sinitic / Tungusic / unspecified nomadic people near China.) Wild.