History of the World Map by Map

Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map.

Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action and follow Ghengis Khan sweeping through China, Napoleon conquering Europe, or two world wars raging across the globe. See empires rise and fall - from the Egyptians and the Aztecs to the British Empire and the Soviet Union.

History of the World Map by Map also explains how elements of civilization, such as writing, printing, and tool-making, came into being and spread from one country to another. It tells of the rise of the world's great religions and of human endeavour such as the voyages of early explorers. It charts stories of adversity such as the abolition of slavery, and shows how people have always migrated for a better life, from the very first humans moving across Africa, to millions of 19th-century Europeans crossing the Atlantic in search of the American dream.

Endorsed by renowned broadcaster, historian, and author Peter Snow, this is an unmissable visual guide to ancient, medieval, and modern history in all corners of the world. This updated edition contains eight pages of brand new maps, and has been reviewed and updated for diversity and inclusion.

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Prehistory 7 MYA - 3000 BCE

• From apes to farmers
• The first humans
• Out of Africa
• The first Australians
• Peopling the Americas
• The first farmers
• Origins of agriculture
• Villages to towns

The Ancient world 3000 BCE - 500 CE

• The first civilizations
• The first cities
• Calendar systems
• Egypt of the pharaohs
• The first writing
• Minoans and Mycenaeans
• Bronze Age China
• Bronze Age collapse
• The ancient Levant
• The Iron Age
• Assyria and Babylonia
• Iron Age Africa
• Rise of the Persian Empire
• First cities in the Americas
• The Phoenicians
• The Greek city states
• Greece and Persia at war
• Alexander the Great
• The Classical Age
• Etruscans and the
• rise of Rome
• Rome builds its power base
• Roman Empire at its height
• The roots of Indian history
• Mauryan India
• China's first emperor
• Terracotta army
• Ancient American civilizations
• Age of migrations
• Han dynasty
• The spread of Buddhism
• The rise of Christianity

Middle ages 500 - 1450 CE

• The Middle Ages
• The Byzantine Empire
• The ascent of Islam
• Rule of the caliphs
• The Vikings
• The Normans
• The Silk Road
• Medieval renaissance
• The Crusades
• The inheritors of Rome
• The Hundred Years War
• Medieval European trade
• The Black Death
• The Jews in medieval Europe
• The Holy Roman Empire
• Rise of the Ottomans
• The Reconquista
• Medieval East Asia
• Tang and Song China
• Medieval Korea and Japan
• The Mongol conquests
• Yuan China to the early Ming
• Temple states of Southeast Asia
• African peoples and empires
• Mansa Musa
• The Polynesians
• North American cultures
• Aztec and Inca empires

The early modern world 1450 - 1700

• The early modern world
• European exploration
• Spanish colonies in the Americas
• The Spanish in America
• The colonization of North America
• The age of exchange
• The Renaissance
• The colonial spice trade
• Printing
• The Reformation
• The Thirty Years War
• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• British civil wars
• Reign of the Ottomans
• East meets West
• Mughal India
• China from the Ming to the Qing
• Japan unifies under the Tokugawa
• The Scientific Revolution
• The Dutch Empire

Revolution and Industry 1700 - 1850

• The age of revolution
• Battle for North America
• The Seven Years War
• The Agricultural Revolution
• The Atlantic slave trade
• The American Revolution
• South American independence
• The Enlightenment
• Indigenous Americans' fate
• The French Revolution
• Napoleon advances
• Napoleon's downfall
• The Industrial Revolution
• Industrial Britain
• Romanticism and nationalism
• The revolutions of 1848
• New Zealand and Australia
• The abolition of slavery
• India and British colonialism
• The Opium Wars

Progress and Empire 1850 - 1914

• Cities and industry
• Industrialized Europe
• Socialism and anarchism
• Transport and communications
• Mass Migrations
• The age of imperialism
• The new imperialism
• Resistance and the Raj
• Russian Empire expands
• Africa colonized
• Foreign powers in China
• Decline of Qing China
• Japan transformed
• American Civil War
• Science and innovation
• Expansion of the US
• Independent Latin America
• Germany and Italy unified
• Balkan wars
• The eve of World War

The Modern world 1914 - present

• The modern world
• World War I
• The trenches
• The wider war
• The Russian Revolution
• Political extremism
• Aftermath of the Great War
• The Great Depression
• China and nationalism
• Soviet Union under Stalin
• The Spanish Civil War
• World War II
• Axis powers advance
• Occupied Europe
• The war in the Pacific
• Germany defeated
• Japan defeated
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Partition of India
• The founding of communist China
• Superpowers
• The Cold War
• Korean War
• Decolonization of Southeast Asia
• European unity
• Decolonization of Africa
• Rockets and the space race
• Civil rights and student revolt
• The Vietnam Wars
• US interventions in Latin America
• Israel and the Middle East
• Economic boom and environmental cost
• The collapse of communism
• War in Yugoslavia
• Globalization
• Iran and the Gulf Wars
• The communications revolution
• Population and energy
• COVID-19 pandemic

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