I'm trying to guage is the north western area is a good place for a civ with many trading outposts or not. [Same area by the way, is where Aaron is].

Issue being I am not 100% how to map their civ out outside of placing a bunch of dots where their city states would be along with what leagues/alliances they are aligned to.

Mainly since my guys eschew a unity in their culture far more than a political/national unity kind of like greeks or polynesians or really many earlier sea-based civilizations that liked setting up colonies on small islands.

I find it a similar issue to arab caliphate making since I fear going in with a paintbrush to highlight areas where they are distributed may give the impression they are powerful when they are really just a collection of city states that have cultural continuity.