Mapping the World A Mapping and Coloring Book of World History, Volume One: To 1500

Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University.

Marc Van De Mieroop is Professor of History at Columbia University.

Richard von Glahn is Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles.

Kris Lane is the France Vinton Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University.

Introduction

Reference Maps

Out of Africa
Southwest Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 5000-1200 BCE
The Nomads and Settlers of Early Eurasia
Rise of the First Empires
The Spread of Hellenism
Empires and Exchange in Asia, 500 BCE-500 CE
The Roman and Sasanid Empires, c. 260 CE
Peoples of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands, c. 3000 BCE-500 CE
Christian and Islamic Lands, c. 750
Cross-Cultural Exchange in Asia, 400-1000
Formation of Regional Societies in the Americas and the Pacific, 300-1200 CE
Commercial Crossroads in Afro-Eurasia, c. 1300
The Major Written Languages of Eurasia, c. 1300
Eurasian Integration, c. 1050-1351
Afro-Eurasian in the Early Fifteenth Century
The Western Hemisphere, c. 1501
European Exploration and Conquest, c. 1450-1601

Outline Maps

Starting Points: Find Your Place in the World
Early Human Origins to 80,000 BCE
Out of Africa: Human Migrations to 15,000 BCE
The Ancient Near East to 1200 BCE
Ancient India to 500 BCE
Shang and Zhou China
Africa, c. 6000 BCE-400 CE
The Pacific Islands, c. 4000 BCE-1000 CE
The Americas, 1200 BCE-600 CE
Egypt, Nubia, and the Middle East, 1500 BCE-250 CE
The Empires of Persia, 559 BCE-651 CE
Greeks of Phoenicians in the Ancient Mediterranean, c. 750-550 BCE
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Empires of Asia, 500 BCE-500 CE
The Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, 264 BCE-395 CE
Central and East Asia, c. 650
Byzantium and Islam to 1000
The Americas, 300-1200
Afro-Eurasia, c. 1150-1300
India and Southeast Asia, 640-1100 CE
Eurasia, 1037-1350
Europe and the Greater Mediterranean, 1346-1453
The Aztec Empire, 1325-1521
The Inca Empire, 1325-1521
Voyages of Discovery, 1405-1600
Ending Points: The Human Development Index