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Aegean
The Aegean World

   

Greek
Alexander the Great's Conquests

 


Ancient Anatolia

 

Egyptian
Ancient Egypt

 

Egyptian
Ancient Egypt

   

Etruscan
Ancient Etruria
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Ancient Greece

   

Greek
Ancient Greek Sites

 

Greek
Ancient Greek Sites in Italy

 

Greek
The Ancient Greek World, up to 400 BCE
before 400 BCE

 


Ancient Iran

 


The Ancient Mediterranean

 

Mesopotamian
Ancient Mesopotamia

 


The Ancient Near East

   


The Ancient World

 

Greek
The Archaic Greek World

 

Mesopotamian
Ashur

 

Mesopotamian
Assyria

 

Greek
Athens in the 5th Century BCE
c. 450-400 BCE, Athens

 

Greek
Attica
5th Century BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Babylonian Map of the World
6th c. BCE, British Museum, London

   

African
The Bamana Territory

 

Pre-Columbian
The Basin of Mexico

 

African
Baule Territory

 

Flemish
The Burgundian Netherlands in 1435
1435

 

Byzantine
Byzantium c. 800

 

Byzantine
Byzantium c. 1050

 

Byzantine
Byzantium c. 1350

 

Byzantine
Byzantium during the Reign of Justinian

 


Caesar's Campaign in Gaul
c. 58-50 BCE

 

Frankish
Carolingian Empire

 


Catholicism and Orthodoxy
11th-15th Century

 

Celtic
Celtic Territory
8th-5th Century BCE

 

American
Chicago Business District, Bird's-Eye View
c. 1898, Chicago

 


Chinese and Japanese Trading Centers

 


Cistercian Abbeys in Europe

 

Greek
Classical Greece, the Delian League
5th Century BCE

 

Greek
Classical Period Greece
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 


The Classical World: Greece and Rome

 

Aegean
The Cyclades

 

Roman
Diocletian, the Empire Reorganized
c. 284-395

 

Greek
Division of Alexander's Empire
c. 275 BCE

 

Egyptian
The Division of Egypt under the 22nd Dynasty, c. 818 BC

 

Greek
Early Attica
5th-4th Century BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Early Mesopotamian City-States

 

Islamic
The Eastern Abbasid Caliphate
c. 800-1100

 


Eastern Mediterranean
c. 100 BCE

 

Roman
Eastern Roman Provinces during the 2nd and 3rd Centuries

 

Egyptian
Egypt in Syria, c. 1425-1418 BC

 

Egyptian
Egypt in the 21st Dynasty, c. 945 BC

 

Egyptian
Egypt, c. 2064-1986 BC

 

Egyptian
Egyptian Middle Kingdom
c. 2030-1640 BCE

 

Egyptian
Egyptian New Kingdom
c. 1550-1070 BCE

 

Egyptian
Egyptian Old Kingdom
c. 2686-2181 BCE

 


El Camino Reál and the Missions of Alta California
1769-1823

 


Emergence of Organized Religions
c. 1500-500 BCE

 

Greek
The Empire of Alexander the Great
c. 336-323 BCE

 

Roman
Empire of Justinian
c. 527-565

 

Mesopotamian
Empire of Sargon the Great
c. 2334-2279 BCE

 


English and Spanish Colonies in Eastern North America

 

Etruscan
Etruscan Expansion
7th-5th Century BCE

 


Europe after the Peace of Westphalia
17th Century

 


Europe and North America in the 17th Century
17th Century

   


Europe and North America in the 18th Century
18th Century

   


Europe and North America, 1900-1950
20th Century

   


Europe and the United States in the 19th Century
19th Century

   


Europe in 1095
1095

 


Europe in the Fourteenth Century

 


Europe in the Gothic Era

   


Europe in the High Middle Ages

 


Europe in the Romanesque Period

   


Europe of the Early Middle Ages

   


European Colonial Territory in North America

 

Mesopotamian
Expansion of the Assyrian Empire between 900 and 700 BCE
c. 900-700 BCE

 

Roman
Extent of the Roman Empire in 400 AD

 

Egyptian
Faiyum and the Egyptian Delta, c. 1937-1759 BC

 

Islamic
The Fatimid Caliphate
909-1171

 


Field Systems in Tavole Palatine
c. 450 BCE, Tavole Palatine

 

Egyptian
The First Intermediate Period

 

Italian
Florence in 1500
15th Century

 


Francia
c. 990-1031

 

Greek
Geometric and Archaic Period Greece
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 


Germanic Kingdoms
c. 400-500

 

Greek
Greece and the Aegean Sea
Temple of Hera, Samos

 

Greek
The Greek World

 

Greek
The Greek World
c. 400-30 BCE

 

Anatolian
Hittite Empire and Neighboring States
c. 1400-1200 BCE

 


Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy
1152

 


Important Cites in 15th Century Central Europe
15th Century

 


Indian and Southeast Asian Trading Centers

 

Roman
Invasions and Rebellions of the Roman Empire
c. 250-271

 

Roman
Invasions of the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th Centuries

 

Islamic
The Islamic World

 

Islamic
Islamic World in the Tenth Century
c. 900-999

 


Italy c. 1500
c. 1500

 

Italian
Italy in 1559
1559

 

Italian
Italy in the Fifteenth Century
15th Century

   

Italian
Italy in the Mid-15th Century
15th Century

 

Italian
Italy in the Sixteenth Century
16th Century

 

Islamic
Jerusalem c. 640 showing major Christian Sites and the Temple Mount
begun c. 691, Jerusalem

 


Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Worlds

 

Italian
Languages of Italy
5th Century BCE

 


The Late Roman and Byzantine World

 


The Late Roman Empire and its Neighbors
200-700

 

Aegean
Lerna
2500-2200 BCE, Lerna

 

Egyptian
The Libyans and the Sea Peoples, c. 1180-1177 BC

 

Egyptian
The Macedonians in Egypt, 332-240 BC

 

Greek
Magna Graecia
c. 800-700 BCE

 


Map of Megalithic Activity in Europe

 

Egyptian
Map of the Giza Acropolis

 

German
Map of the Roads to Rome
before 1499, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

Egyptian
Medinet Habu

 


Mediterranean Empires at the End of the Sixteenth Century
16th Century

 

Egyptian
Middle Kingdom Egypt

 

Egyptian
Middle Kingdom Egypt and Nubia

 


Minoan Crete and the Bronze Age Aegean
c. 3000-2000 BCE

 


Missions of Alta California
1769-1823

 

Aegean
The Mycenaean World

 

Egyptian
Natural Resources of Ancient Egypt

 

Mesopotamian
The Near East at the end of the third millennium BCE

 

Mesopotamian
The Near East during the Akkadian period

 

Mesopotamian
The Near East during the Late Uruk and Early Dynastic Periods

 

Egyptian
Near East Trade with Middle Kingdom Egypt, c. 1991-1640 BC

 

Greek
Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Netherlandish
The Netherlands in the 15th century
15th Century

 

Dutch
The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
17th Century

 

Mesopotamian
New Babylonian Empire
c. 625-539 BCE

 

American
NNew York City Grid with Central Park c. 1850
c. 1850, New York, New York

 

Italian
Northern and Central Italy in the 15th Century
15th Century

 


Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula in the 16th Century
16th Century

 


Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula in the Fifteenth Century

 


Northern Europe in the Fifteenth Century
15th Century

 

Egyptian
Nubia in the 18th Dynasty

 

Egyptian
Old Kingdom Egypt and Nubia

 

Greek
Olynthos
c. 500-300 BCE

 


Origin and Diffusion of Monastic Life, 4th-9th Centuries

 


Ottoman and Safavid Trading Centers

 

Paleolithic
Painted Caves in the Area of Lascaux

 

Persian
Parthian and Sasanian Empires
99 BCE - 399 CE

 

Persian
Persian Empire in the Time of Darius
c. 522-486 BCE

 


Pilgrimage Routes to Santiago de Compostela

   

American
Plan of Colonial Williamsburg
18th Century

 


The Possessions of Philip the Bold after 1396

 


Prehistoric Europe

   

Etruscan
Principal Etruscan Sites in Central Italy
10th-6th Century BCE

 

Roman
Punic Wars
c. 264-146 BCE

 

Egyptian
The Pyramids, c. 2650-1539 BC

 

Italian
Renaissance and Earlier Monuments in Rome

 

Dutch
Republic of the United Netherlands in 1648
1648

 

Dutch
The Rhine Area c. 1480
c. 1480

 

Roman
Rise of Constantine and the City of Constantinople
c. 306-324

 

Roman
Rise of Rome
3rd Century BCE

 

Roman
Roman Civil Wars
c. 49-31 BCE

 

Roman
The Roman Empire
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
The Roman Empire in 68 CE at the Time of Nero's Death
1st Century

   

Roman
The Roman Republic and Roman Empire

   

Italian
Rome c. 1400
15th Century

 

Egyptian
Royal Residences in the New Kingdom

 

Greek
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros
c. 400 BCE and later

     

Persian
Sasanian Empire
c. 224-651

 

English
Sawley Map
c. 1190, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

 


The Seven Wonders of the World

 


Shrines and Pilgrimage Routes in Western Europe

 


The Silk Road and Other Trade Routes
c. 700-800

 

Flemish
The Southern Netherlands under Philip the Good
15th Century

 


Southwestern Asia

 


Spanish and Portuguese Territories in the Americas, with Iberian Trade Routes

 


Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Trade Routes
17th Century

 

Netherlandish
Sphere of Influence of the Counts of Guelders
14th Century

 


The Spread of Christianity
1st Century

 


The Spread of the Black Death
14th Century

 

French
Suburb of Le Vésinet
1858, Le Vésinet

 

Egyptian
Tell el-Amarna as Excavated

 

Egyptian
The Temples of Karnak

 

Roman
Territories by the Roman Empire
5th Century

 

African
Territory of the Former Benin Kingdom

 

Egyptian
The Theban Monarchy, c. 1525-1514 BC

 


Topographic Map of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

 

Egyptian
Trading with New Kingdom Egypt, c. 1500-1300 BC

 

Italian
Venice and its Territories during the Renaissance

 


Western Europe During the Reformation
c. 1560

 

Egyptian
Workmen's Village at Deir el-Medina

 


The World in 1250 BCE
c. 1250 BCE

 

German
World Map
c. 1480, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 


The World Since 1945
20th Century

 


The World since 1950
20th Century

 

John Wolcott Adams [American, 1874 – 1925] and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes [American, 1867 – 1944]
Redraft of the Castello Plan, New Amsterdam in 1660
1916, New York City Public Library

 

Joan Blaeu [Dutch, 1596 – 1673]
Nova Totius Terrum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
1630, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, Portland

 

John Bonner [American, active century] and Francis Dewing [American, active 18th century]
Town of Boston in New England, 1722
1722, New York City Public Library

 

Georg Braun [German, 1542 – 1622] and Franz Hogenberg [Netherlandish, c. 1540 – c. 1590]
Candia, from Civiates Orbis Terrarum
1572-1617, British Library, London

 

Daniel Hudson Burnham [American, 1846 – 1912]
Plan for the Improvement of Chicago
1909

 

Ildefonso Cerdá [Spanish, 1816 – 1876]
Ensanche of Barcelona
1860, Institut Municipal de Historia, Barcelona

 

Jean Delagrive [French, 1689 – 1757]
Detailed Plan of the Île de la Cité
1754

 

Georges Eugéne Haussmann [French, 1809 – 1891]
Plan of Haussmann's work in Paris
c. 1853

 

Thomas Holme [active century]
A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America, 1682
1682, Olin Library, Ithaca

 

Ebenezer Howard [English, 1850 – 1928]
Diagram for Garden Cities around a Central City
1898

 

Michael Lok [English, active 16th century]
Map of North America
1582, British Library, London

 

Fra Paolino Minorita [Italian, c. 1270 – c. 1344]
Plan of Venice
1346, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

 

Pierre Patte [French, 1723 – 1814]
Composite Map of Paris with Rival Plans for a Palace
1765, RIBA Library, London

 

Maxwell J. Roberts [English, first active 1993]
Curvy Map of the Paris Metro
2007

 

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