History of the world map by map/История карты мира

Издание на английском языке
This book tells the story of life on Earth in more meticulous detail and with more arresting pictures than I’ve ever seen before. I believe that in this digital age, maps are more important than ever. People are losing sight of the need for them in a world where our knowledge is reduced to the distance between two zip codes. For me, a journey-certainly the contemplation of a journey - is a voyage across a map. But this beautiful book offers the added dimension of a state-of-the-art journey through time. These maps display the story of the world in delightfully accessible form. They demonstrate in a spectacular way how there is no substitute for the printed page, for the entrancing spread of color across paper that we can touch and feel. The maps are large; the colors are bold. Text boxes spring out from places whose history matters. Clear and easily readable graphics reveal the ups and downs of empires, cultures, wars and other events both human and natural that have shaped our world from the beginning.

Contents
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
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
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 emperor and the pope
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
Voyages of exploration
Spanish conquests 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
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 golden age
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
The fate of Native Americans
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
Rise of British power in India
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
The 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 communication revolution
Population and energy
Timeline
Index
Acknowledgments