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Maps

In this section I tell the history of the world in 60 maps (I'm funny, I know). In order to truly understand world history, we must look at the world in which they lived. Throughout this page, I intend to only include maps which are vital to the fundamental understanding of world history. These maps all come from William R. Shepherd's Historical Atlas at the Perry-Castañeda UT Austin Library. However, Sheperd's Atlas does provide a nearly entirely western view of world history (Buyer Beware), so if you are looking for a more "modern" atlas, this is not the place. Note that some pages include multiple maps so they may be repeated for various sections.

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Bronze Age/Early Iron Age

Physical Map of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa

Mycenean Greece and the Orient about 1450 B.C.

The Assyrian Empire and the Region about the Eastern Mediterranean, 750-625 B.C.

Reference map of Ancient Palestine

Early/Middle Iron Age

The Oriental Empires about 600 B.C. &
The Beginnings of Historic Greece 700 B.C.-600 B.C.

Greek and Phoenician Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin, about 550 B.C.

Greece at the Time of the War with Persia, 500-479 B.C.

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The Athenian Empire at its Height (about 450 B.C.)

The Macedonian Empire

Early Roman History

Plans of Rome and Athens

Growth of Roman Power in Italy

Rome and Carthage at the Beginning of the Second Punic War, 218 B.C.

Territorial Expansion of Rome

Middle/Late Roman History

Reference Map of the European Provinces of the Roman Empire

The Roman Empire about 395

Germanic Migrations and Conquests, 150-1066

The Roman and Hunnic Empires about 450

Early Post Roman Western Europe

Roman Britain about 410

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Settlements of Angles, Saxons and Jutes in Britain about 600

Development of Christianity to 1300

Growth of Frankish Power, 481-814

Disruption of the Carolingian Empire, 843-888

Byzantine Empire

The Germanic Kingdoms and the East Roman Empire in 486

Europe and the East Roman Empire, 533-600

Europe and the Byzantine Empire about 1000

The Byzantine Empire in 1265

Early Islam

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The Califate in 750

The Califate about 814

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The Carolingian and Byzantine Empires

The Mediterranean Lands after 1204

Europe and the Mediterranean Lands about 1097

Early Middle Ages

The British Isles in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

Central Europe, 919-1125

Dominions of William the Conqueror about 1087

France, 1154-1184

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