- Ægean Civilization (Map)
Ægean Civilization - World as known to the Ancients
Map of the World as known to the Ancients - Wars of the Greeks and Persians (Map)
Wars of the Greeks and Persians (Map) - Travels of Marco Polo
Travels of Marco Polo - The World as known shortly before the sailing of Columbus
The World as known shortly before the sailing of Columbus - The World According to Eratosthenes, 200 B.C.
The World According to Eratosthenes, 200 B.C. - The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C.
The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C. - The United States in 1790
The United States in 1790 - The Spread of Buddhism
The Spread of Buddhism - The Natural Political Map of Europe
It is worth while for the reader to compare the treaty maps we give with what we have called the natural political map of Europe. The new arrangements do approach this latter more closely than any previous system of boundaries. It may be a necessary preliminary to any satisfactory league of peoples, that each people should first be in something like complete possession of its own household. - The Moslem Empire
The Moslem Empire 750 AD - The Known World, about 250 B.C
The Known World, about 250 B.C - The First printed map of England
The First printed map of England - The Cradle of Chinese Civilization (Map)
The Cradle of Chinese Civilization (Map) - The Coming of the Seljuks
Haroun-al-Raschid died in 809. At his death his great empire fell immediately into civil war and confusion, and the next great event of unusual importance in this region of the world comes two hundred years later when the Turks, under the chiefs of the great family of the Seljuks, poured southward out of Turkestan, and not only conquered the empire of Bagdad, but Asia Minor also. Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. They were still much the same people as those of whom Yuan Chwang gave us a glimpse four hundred years earlier, but now they were Moslems, and Moslems of the primitive type, men whom Abu Bekr would have welcomed to Islam. They caused a great revival of vigour in Islam, and they turned the minds of the Moslem world once more in the direction of a religious war against Christendom. - The British Empire in 1815
The British Empire in 1815 consisted of the thinly populated coastal river and lake regions of Canada, and a great hinterland of wilderness in which the only settlements as yet were the fur-trading stations of the Hudson Bay Company, about a third of the Indian peninsula, under the rule of the East India Company, the coast districts of the Cape of Good Hope inhabited by blacks and rebellious-spirited Dutch settlers; a few trading stations on the coast of West Africa, the rock of Gibraltar, the island of Malta, Jamaica, a few minor slave-labour possessions in the West Indies, British Guiana in South America, and, on the other side of the world, two dumps for convicts at Botany Bay in Australia and in Tasmania. - Section of Frobisher's Map of the World
Section of Frobisher's map of the world, 1576. Copied from Hakluyt. It shows what the English explorer thought America was. - Routes of the discoverers
Routes of the discoverers - Roman Power after the Samnite Wars
Roman Power after the Samnite Wars - Roman Empire at Death of Augustus
Roman Empire at Death of Augustus - Overseas Empires of European Powers, 1914
Overseas Empires of European Powers, 1914 - Outline plan of Pompeii
The Regions are given as they were laid out by Fiorelli, the boundaries being marked by broken lines. The Insulae are designated by Arabic numerals. Stabian Street, between Stabian and Vesuvius gates, separating Regions VIII, VII, and VI, from I, IX, and V, is often called Cardo, from analogy with the cardo maximus (the north and south line) of a Roman camp. Nola Street, leading from the Nola Gate, with its continuations (Strada della Fortuna, south of Insulae 10, 12, 13, and 14 of Region VI, and Strada della Terme, south of VI, 4, 6, 8), was for similar reasons designated as the Greater Decuman, Decumanus Maior; while the street running from the Water Gate to the Sarno Gate (Via Marina, Abbondanza Street, Strada dei Diadumeni) is called the Lesser Decuman, Decumanus Minor. The only Regions wholly excavated are VII and VIII; but only a small portion of Region VI remains covered. The towers of the city wall are designated by numbers, as they are supposed to have been at the time of the siege of Sulla, in 89 B.C. - Ojeda's first voyage
There is no doubt whatever that Vespucci made a voyage in 1499-1500, along with Alonzo de Ojeda and the great pilot Juan[Pg 109] de la Cosa, but whether this may be styled his first or his second must be left to the intelligence of the reader, for the historians are at odds themselves, and it might seem presumptuous in the biographer to assume to decide. - North America from the globe of Johann Schöner
In a pamphlet accompanying "the earliest known globe of Johann Schöner," made in 1515, the new region is described as the "fourth part of the globe named after its discoverer, Americus Vespucius, who found it in 1497." Vespucci did not find it, and he never made the claim that he discovered more than is given in his letters; but this misstatement by another caused him to be accused of falsifying the dates of his voyages in order to rob Columbus of his desserts. - Median and Second Babylonian Empires (in Nebuchadnezzar’s Reign)
Median and Second Babylonian Empires (in Nebuchadnezzar’s Reign) - Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North America
Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North America - Map Showing Routes of Cartier, Champlain, and La Salle
Map Showing Routes of Cartier, Champlain, and La Salle, also French and English Possessions at the Time of the Last French War. - Map of the United States showing the Southern Confederacy
Map of the United States showing the Southern Confederacy, the Slave States that did not Secede, and the Territories. - Map of Louisiana Purchase
Map of Louisiana Purchase; also United States in 1803. - Map of George Town
Map of George Town - Map of France, corrected by order of the king
Map of France, corrected by order of the king Desborough Cooley in his "History of Voyages," says, "They deprived her (France) of several degrees of longitude in the length of her western coast, from Brittany to the Bay of Biscay. And in the same way retrenched about half a degree from Languedoc and La Provence." These alterations gave rise to a "bon-mot." Louis the XIV., in complimenting the Academicians upon their return, remarked, "I am sorry to see, gentlemen, that your journey has cost me a good part of my kingdom!" - Map of Europe, Asia, Africa 15,000 Years Ago
Map of Europe, Asia, Africa 15,000 Years Ago - Map of Europe, 500 A.D.
Map of Europe, 500 A.D. - Map of Europe, 1848-1871
Map of Europe, 1848-1871 - Map of Europe 50,000 Years Ago
Possible Map of Europe 50,000 Years Ago - Map of England showing the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and Danish Districts
Map of England showing the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and Danish Districts - Map of 1515
Map of 1515, showing what some geographers then supposed North America to be. This is one of the earliest maps on which the name America occurs. It will be notices that at that time it was confined to South America. - Map Illustrating the Battle of Long Island
It was a desperate undertaking. There were 10,000 men, and the width of the river at the point of crossing was nearly a mile. It would seem hardly possible that such a movement could, in a single night, be made without discovery by the British troops, who were lying in camp but a short distance away. The night must have been a long and anxious one for Washington, who stayed at his post of duty on the Long Island shore until the last boat of the retreating army had pushed off. The escape was a brilliant achievement and saved the American cause. - Later State of Alexander’s Empire
Later State of Alexander’s Empire - Italy after 275 B.C
Map of Italy after 275 BC - Hellenic Races 1000-800 B.C. (Map)
Hellenic Races 1000-800 B.C. (Map) - France at the Close of the 10th Century
France at the Close of the 10th Century - Europe, 500 A.D.
Europe, 500 A.D. - Europe in the Time of Charles V
Europe in the Time of Charles V - Europe in 1714
Europe in 1714 - Europe at the Fall of Constantinople
Europe at the Fall of Constantinople - Europe at the Death of Charlemagne
Europe at the Death of Charlemagne - Europe and Asia, 1200
Europe and Asia, 1200 - Europe after the Congress of Vienna
Europe after the Congress of Vienna - England, 878 A.D
England, 878 A.D - England, 640 A.D.
England, 640 A.D. - Empire of Timurlane
Empire of Timurlane - Empire of Otto the Great
Empire of Otto the Great - Empire of Jengis Khan, 1227
Empire of Jengis Khan, 1227 - Drawing of Jamestown
Drawing of Jamestown - De Soto's Expedition 1539-1542
De Soto's Expedition 1539-1542 The outlines and names of states are given for convenience in tracing De Soto's course. - Correct chart of westward route from Europe to Asia, for comparison with the chart of Columbus
Correct chart of westward route from Europe to Asia, for comparison with the chart of Columbus - Comparative Maps of Asia under Different Projections
Comparative Maps of Asia (a) as part of hemisphere (b) on Mercators projection to show relative sizes of Asiatic Russia and India in the two cases. - Chief Foreign Settlements in India, 17th Century
Chief Foreign Settlements in India, 17th Century - Central Europe, 1648
Central Europe, 1648