A History of the World in 500 Maps

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The explorers find a continent still suffering from the aftermath of the great upheavals which engulfed southern and central Africa after the Zulu conquests. As a result, the old, neo-feudal structures which have prevailed in much of Europe for centuries are coming under increasing attack. Over the past few centuries, Iron Age technology has been spreading far and wide in the Eastern Hemisphere. This is an era of the ancient world when all the major centers of civilization see huge empires at various stages of development.

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In so doing, they consolidate the cultural achievements of the past centuries, and expand the reach of these civilizations. Inevitably, rivalry set in between the different nationalities, and, thanks to its command of the seas, Britain has emerged as the leading power in India. Egypt meanwhile continues to develop as an independent kingdom – at least, independent from Ottoman rule. Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day. In their brief flowering as leading powers they make a big mark, playing a central part in the development of the alphabet and the rise of the first great monotheistic religion of world history.The Sarmatians continued to dominate the western steppes and eastern Europe until the coming, first of the Goths, a German tribe from the Baltic region (3rd century), and then the Huns (4th and 5th centuries). Historical resources maps give us some hints on what resources one region possessed and how that particular area evolved. The appearance of Roman merchants in south Chinese ports shows the strength of trade links between different parts of the Eastern Hemisphere by this time. In the Middle East, the past few centuries have seen the rise and fall of a succession of great empires – the Assyrian, the Neo-Babylonian and the Median.

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This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. In each of the major civilizations, religion or ideology plays a more dominant role than in the past: Europe becomes “Christendom”, and goes to war against “the world of Islam”, now ruling the Middle East and North Africa.These types of world history maps usually depict states and the boundaries of these kingdoms or empires. Alexander the Great’s phalanxes had proved their worth on the battlefield, but now the Roman army was the most effective exponent of this type of warfare. North of the Black Sea, the Cimmerians have been replaced as the dominant people by the Scythians, whose tribes are fanning out over a huge area from eastern Europe to central Asia. The Italici give their name to the Italian peninsula; further north, in central Europe, Gauls, Teutons (Germans and Scandinavians) and Slavs are beginning to divide into separate peoples.